Jazz Articles about Tierney Sutton

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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Tierney Sutton Stuns at Montreal

by Ken Franckling
July 9, 2004

2004 is turning out to be Tierney Sutton's year.

The California-based singer, who has been building her reputation and her musical art for more than a decade, resulting in a series of five albums with her band. She played a full month at the Algonquin Hotel's famed Oak Room in New York in late winter. She followed that with a two-week run at the Big Apple's Le Jazz Au Bar in May.

And Tuesday night, July 6, Sutton made her ...

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Tierney Sutton: Dancing in the Dark: Inspired by the Music of Frank Sinatra

by C. Michael Bailey
December 24, 2003

Tierney Sutton is neither a “snake charmer" (in 1940s parlance), nor a “chanteuse" (in anemic 21st century vernacular). She is a jazz singer (to the moronic print and advertising media who ineffectually write about her as if her talent were mere aptitude). Ms. Sutton is no stranger to the electrons floating in this space (nor to this critic). She is very much a living, breathing artist existing just short of exultation. She stormed the jazz scene in 1998 with a ...

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Tierney Sutton: Something Cool

by Roger Crane
September 4, 2002

I don’t ordinarily drink with strangers, I most usually drink alone,” states the lonely (and probably faded) lady in Billy Barnes’ masterful song, “Something Cool.” Tennessee Williams could have inspired this Blanche Dubois like heroine and it takes a singer with a talent for language, prosody and pacing to perform this story song convincingly. Tierney Sutton is very much a jazz singer, who focuses on the music, but she is also a storyteller and her rendition of this inspired and ...

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Tierney Sutton: Something Cool

by Dave Nathan
September 1, 2002

With her third album for Telarc and her fourth overall, songstress Tierney Sutton has established herself as one of the leading lights among today's jazz vocalists. Offering a 14-tune play list with lots of variety and about 65 minutes of music, both vocal and instrumental, Sutton shows that she's a true singer of song without whom there would be no songs. She takes such authoritative possession of whatever she selects, it is hard for another singer to reclaim it. This ...