TIERNEY SUTTON - Introducing Tierney Sutton (1997) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Tierney Sutton has the kind of voice that you can take for granted. After just a couple of tunes, you know you can relax -- she's not going to flub a note, she's not going to screech trying to reach beyond her range, she's not going to show off. That frees you up to sit back, close your eyes, and alternate between wonder at her pure technique and rapt enjoyment of her artistry. Sutton's debut album is a program of standards (not to say potboilers): "The Song Is You," "My Heart Stood Still," "It Never Entered My Mind," like that. But even if you've heard all these songs a hundred times before, you'll still love this album. Not because she brings anything particularly surprising or revelatory to this repertoire, but because she sheds such a warm, sweet light on the songs that it's a pleasure to hear them again. Sometimes she surprises, as on the voice/bass duet arrangements of "In Love in Vain" and "My Heart Stood Still," which are two of this album's many highlights, or with startling scat excursions where you don't necessarily expect them. Other times she evokes Ella Fitzgerald at her peak, as on her rendition of "Caravan." But she never disappoints. by Rick Anderson  
Tracklist:
1 Old Country 3:24
Curtis Lewis
2 You're Nearer 3:44
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
3 The Song Is You 4:38
Oscar Hammerstein II / Jerome Kern
4 In Love in Vain 3:50
Jerome Kern / Leo Robin
5 It Never Entered My Mind 5:44
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
6 Caravan 6:35
Duke Ellington / Irving Mills / Juan Tizol
7 I've Never Been in Love Before 3:44
Frank Loesser
8 Morning Sun 3:19
Scott Hitzik
9 My Heart Stood Still 1:22
Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers
10 High Wire 4:36
Chick Corea
11 I'm a Fool to Want You 3:07
Joel Herron / Frank Sinatra / Jack Wolf
12 Footprints/My Favorite Things 5:10
Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rodgers / Wayne Shorter
13 If I Were a Bell 4:10
Frank Loesser
14 In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning 4:26
Bob Hilliard / David Mann
Credits:
Bass – Trey Henry
Drums – Ray Brinker
Flugelhorn – Buddy Childers (tracks: 1)
Piano – Christian Jacob (tracks: 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 12), Michael Lang (tracks: 2, 5, 8, 11, 13, 14)
Recorded By – Gordon Suffield, Jim Latham
Vocals, Producer – Tierney Sutton