The jazz world has artists who love to swim through standards, making listeners as comfortable as they were the last time they heard the song.
Not Tierney Sutton.
“We almost feel like it's our responsibility to do something with it that's really out there," the singer said in a phone interview from her L.A. home. “But if they don't know it, you don't want to mess with it so much."
The Grammy-nominated vocalist, who performs with her band Monday in Salt Lake City, is known for pushing the boundaries of jazz standards to new limits as she does on her new album, “On the Other Side." Let's just say “You Are My Sunshine" is more ominous than you remember it.
“As jazz musicians we're kind of composing spontaneously to a large degree, and more so the longer we do it, because we really expand on the arrangements we do every night," she said.
A musician could add four extra bars, go into half-time or reinterpret the music without any traditional structure as the band did on its recent album. That gives the players tremendous freedom.
Originally from Wisconsin, Sutton discovered jazz while a student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and hit success in 1998 when she was a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocal Competition. Her 2005 live album “I'm with the Band" was nominated for a Grammy for best jazz vocal album.
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Not Tierney Sutton.
“We almost feel like it's our responsibility to do something with it that's really out there," the singer said in a phone interview from her L.A. home. “But if they don't know it, you don't want to mess with it so much."
The Grammy-nominated vocalist, who performs with her band Monday in Salt Lake City, is known for pushing the boundaries of jazz standards to new limits as she does on her new album, “On the Other Side." Let's just say “You Are My Sunshine" is more ominous than you remember it.
“As jazz musicians we're kind of composing spontaneously to a large degree, and more so the longer we do it, because we really expand on the arrangements we do every night," she said.
A musician could add four extra bars, go into half-time or reinterpret the music without any traditional structure as the band did on its recent album. That gives the players tremendous freedom.
Originally from Wisconsin, Sutton discovered jazz while a student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and hit success in 1998 when she was a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocal Competition. Her 2005 live album “I'm with the Band" was nominated for a Grammy for best jazz vocal album.
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