Jazz Articles about Tierney Sutton

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Tierney Sutton Band: Desire

by Joel Roberts
March 20, 2009

Most singers place the emphasis on romance when interpreting the Great American Songbook. Not Tierney Sutton. The LA-based vocalist's Desire is a decidedly unromantic, melancholy effort that looks at the darker side of standards by the likes of Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, as well as more contemporary tunes by Dave Frishberg and others. With her clear, supple voice, sensuous delivery and an actress' flair for the dramatic, Sutton conveys skepticism along with heartbreak in ...

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Tierney Sutton Band: Desire

by Jeff Winbush
March 17, 2009

On first hearing Desire, by vocalist Tierney Sutton, it's curious why the audience is so quiet, until realizing that it's not a live album, though it sounds like it should be. The underlying and unifying theme here is Sutton's goal to not only deliver the material from a spiritual perspective, but to include recited texts from The Hidden Words of Baha'ullah. Sutton has been a practicing Baha'i for over 25 years.What comes from these lofty ambitions is an ...

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The Tierney Sutton Band: Desire

by C. Michael Bailey
March 9, 2009

Dark chocolate is a beautifully nefarious romantic ideal. Rather than possessing the youthful sweetness of milk chocolate, it instead offers a libertine bitterness, a taste that must be acquired to appreciate but once acquired, no other taste can sate. Having to learn to like something so that knowledge will bring added pleasure is an adult concept, perhaps a hedonistic one, that Paul obviously meant to express when he divinely penned to those salacious Corinthians,

“For now we see through a ...

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Lorraine Feather: Language

by Nicholas F. Mondello
June 7, 2008

Lorraine Feather Language Jazzed Media 2008

By its very title, Language, from singer and lyricist Lorraine Feather, implies that Feather and company believe that they have the musical and linguistic chops to take on such a sophisticated concept for our entertainment. So it's good to find that Feather is a heavyweight who--with a championship caliber crew in her corner--delivers a resounding KO.

To some ears, story songs--word-intense tunes--may seem overly Broadwayesque and ...

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The Tierney Sutton Band: On the Other Side

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 11, 2007

Cover è bello, cover è strano, cover è creativo. Tierney Sutton è tutto questo e molto di più. Sette dischi all’attivo, nomination ai Grammy, premi vinti (tra cui il Los Angeles Jazz Society), chart bollenti (Billboard per 15 settimane) e un passaparola che la dice lunga sul profilo alto della cantante jazz losangelina. On the Other Side ce la presenta al meglio delle sue versatili qualità canore. Accompagnata da una band di splendidi comprimari (Christian Jacob, piano, Kevin Axt, basso, ...

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Tierney Sutton Band: On the Other Side

by Woodrow Wilkins
May 9, 2007

At a glance, Tierney Sutton's new album is all about being happy. However, as the singer explains in the liner notes, it's more about life's experiences in the “pursuit of happiness." A ride that includes the thrill of the chase, the heartache that comes with failing to achieve happiness or losing it, and the joy of experiencing something greater than one's desire. Sutton was a semi-finalist in the 1998 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition. Her 2004 Telarc ...

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Tierney Sutton Band: On The Other Side

by Ernest Barteldes
April 5, 2007

For this studio album, Los Angeles-based vocalist Tierney Sutton and her band came up with the concept of assembling a collection of songs which had to do--for better or worse--with the pursuit of happiness, something “our founding fathers guaranteed us, among other things, as stated on the disc's sleeve. The songs, however, are not about that fuzzy, happy feeling, even if the lyrics say so. The opening “Get Happy (a song popularized by Judy Garland) finds Sutton ...