Jazz Articles about Tierney Sutton

Tierney Sutton: I'm With the Band

by C. Michael Bailey
November 15, 2005

Jazz siren Tierney Sutton has produced her masterpiece. Following five well-received recordings, Sutton has done two things that ensure the superb quality of her new recording: one, she and her band perform live; and two, she fully integrates herself into the band, where all members exist as equals.

Tierney Sutton has made a dent in the jazz market by releasing smartly conceived concept recordings, usually focusing on a single artist. Introducing Tierney Sutton (Challenge, 1998) was an initial ...

Tierney Sutton: I'm with The Band; Kelley Johnson: Live at Birdland

by Ernest Barteldes
October 11, 2005

Tierney Sutton I'm with the Band Telarc 2005 “There's something in our live set that doesn't come through on a studio recording," Sutton said during a phone interview about her recently released album I'm With The Band, which was captured live at Birdland last spring, “so we decided, 'why not do a live record?'" The album contains several classic tunes from the American songbook--some of which were specially ...

Tierney Sutton: I'm With The Band

by Glenn Astarita
August 28, 2005

On I'm With The Band, jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton's performances at New York City's Birdland venue highlight the musical kinship and tight-knit connection she has come to enjoy with her band. In addition, the vocalist possesses the control and discipline of an operatic singer, coupled with a cool sensuous delivery and a consummate sense of swing. Spurred on by an appreciative audience, these live tracks are often engineered upon zesty swing vamps. With the standard “East of the Sun (And ...

Tierney Sutton: I'm With the Band

by Jim Santella
August 16, 2005

Despite the support of a stellar piano trio and sterling musical arrangements, Tierney Sutton turns in a lackluster performance on her first live recording. Recorded at Birdland earlier this year, the session of jazz standards and early popular songbook selections follows a melodic course. Inhibited and determined to get every note just right, the singer interprets each of these familiar songs the way they've been heard before a thousand times over.

Her voice is lustrous and beautiful. Her ...

Tierney Sutton: I'm With The Band

by Stephen Latessa
July 29, 2005

Reviewers tend to spend a good amount of time talking about technique and other matters while bypassing the simple question of whether a voice or instrument sounds good. But the sound of vocalist Tierney Sutton's wonderful, supple voice is hard to get around; it's just a pleasure to hear. Pairing her with a talented, sympathetic band, I'm With The Band is an appealing effort.

Recorded live at Birdland on March 29-30, 2005, Sutton and company tackle sixteen standards ...

Tierney Sutton: Dancing in the Dark

by Jack Bowers
January 16, 2005

Tierney Sutton's latest Telarc release celebrates the music of Frank Sinatra--not the ring-a-ding-ding, devil-may-care, wise-cracking leader of the Rat Pack who was the epitome of hipness and bravado, but, as Sutton observes in the liner notes, the “dark corners" of Sinatra's work that she finds “endlessly compelling." The mood is hushed, sentimental and pensive as Sutton places her indelible stamp on such heart-wrenching Sinatra classics as “Only the Lonely," “I'll Be Around," “Last Night When We Were Young," and others. ...

Sounding Sinatra: Tierney Sutton Performs at the Kennedy Center

by Franz A. Matzner
September 30, 2004

As good as a recording may be, there is just no substitute for a live performance. More often than not, an album can obscure hidden talents, and even the best releases, no matter how powerful, lack the vitality and immediacy of music in the flesh. Tierney Sutton's recent performance at the Kennedy Center's Jazz Club proved no exception to this axiom, revealing facets of Sutton's artistry concealed by the smooth production of her latest (critically-acclaimed) recording. Performing ...