Jazz Articles about Tierney Sutton

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tierney Sutton: The Pursuit of Happiness

by Katrina-Kasey Wheeler
April 5, 2007

Tierney Sutton having been nominated for a Grammy in 2005 for her work on I'm With the Band (Telarc, 2005), has achieved something truly groundbreaking and distinctive with her follow-up, On the Other Side (Telarc, 2007). It has been hailed by many as her best work, not only due to the musicianship, but also for the subject content in which she addresses the all-encompassing topic of happiness and its ever-present pursuit.Sutton has collaborated with jazz greats ranging from ...

The Tierney Sutton Band: On the Other Side

by C. Michael Bailey
February 5, 2007

Tierney Sutton is both an evolutionary and a revolutionary talent. She has become known for her carefully crafted concept or thematic recordings that include her tribute to artists deserving more attention (Unsung Heroes), her tribute to Bill Evans (Blue in Green), her nod to quasi-jazz singers (Something Cool), her tribute to Frank Sinatra (Dancing in the Dark), and I'm With the Band. The latter recording showed Sutton rightly elevating her band to her equal. Sutton has had one of the ...

Tierney Sutton: I'm With the Band

by Woodrow Wilkins
February 2, 2006

Sometimes it's easy to forget the human voice is also an instrument. Tierney Sutton is here to remind us of the fact. Her first live recording and fifth overall, I'm With the Band, recorded on consecutive nights in spring of 2005 at Birdland in New York City, captures this Grammy-nominated singer at her best. Born in Wisconsin, Sutton originally sang in choirs. A move in the mid 1990s to California led to her ten-year collaboration with her ...