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

TIERNEY SUTTON - Something Cool (2002) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Tierney Sutton warms the soul with Something Cool. This offering, her third as a leader for the Telarc label, finds the vocalist using an array of vocal techniques, jazz styles, and formats on 14 great songs by several Great American Songbook composers, Bobby Troup, and the masterful Duke Ellington. Sutton is accompanied by her longtime trio of Christian Jacob on piano, Trey Henry on bass, and Ray Brinker on drums. The lovely vocalist/educator charms her listeners with elongated phrasings, a strong rhythmic sense, and amazing improvisational abilities on three Lerner & Loewe themes from the Broadway musical My Fair Lady. In addition to the outstanding vocal treatments she offers her listeners on these classic songs, Sutton scats and swings through an amazing "Ding, Dong! The Witch Is Dead." This song not only shows her versatility with tempo changes and range, but also displays her unique talent for selecting songs commonly associated with another musical style and improvising them in a jazz context. She garnered international critical acclaim for this technique on her 1999 release titled Unsung Heroes. Additional highlights include Howard Dietz's "Alone Together," on which she duets with bassist Trey Henry, and her exceptional rendition of "The Best Is Yet to Come," which features her cool jazz vocal skills. Tierney Sutton is at her finest on this program and offers an impeccable selection of songs that showcase her distinct musical personality and quality sound. by Paula Edelstein  
Tracklist :
1     Route 66 5:41
Bobby Troup
2     Something Cool 4:29
Billy Barnes
3     Wouldn't It Be Loverly? 3:35
Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe
4     I've Grown Accustomed to His Face 6:25
Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe
5     Show Me 3:07
Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe
6     Comes Love 5:51
Lew Brown / Sam H. Stept / Charles Tobias
7     Reflections 5:37
Duke Ellington / Milt Raskin
8     Alone Together 4:13
Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz
9     Out of This World 6:05
Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
10     All or Nothing at All 5:30
Arthur Altman / Jack Lawrence
11     Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead 3:03
Harold Arlen / E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
12     Walkin' After Midnight 3:00
Alan Block / Don Hecht
13     Crazy 3:40
Willie Nelson
14     The Best Is Yet to Come 4:34
Cy Coleman / Carolyn Leigh
Credits :
Bass – Trey Henry
Drums – Ray Brinker
Piano – Christian Jacob
Vocals – Tierney Sutton

THE TIERNEY SUTTON BAND - Desire (2009) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tierney Sutton has evolved into one of the most striking jazz singers of the early 21st century, simply because of her gift for finding new approaches to familiar songs without abandoning their essence. With her longtime band (pianist Christian Jacob, drummer Ray Brinker, and either Trey Henry or Kevin Axt on bass), Sutton has crafted unusual arrangements of nine standards that many vocalists seem to perform on autopilot without giving them much thought. She turns "It's Only a Paper Moon" into a mystical work by interweaving an excerpt of a Bahá'í prayer in a tense arrangement with Jacob's adventurous altered chords and Brinker's brushwork complementing her enchanting vocal. The uptempo backing to her explosive interpretation of "My Heart Belongs" gives it a decidedly new twist. Likewise, Sutton puts her own touch on perennial vamp favorites like "Whatever Lola Wants" and "Fever" that make a substantial departure from well-known recordings. She's at her best with a pair of songs by Dave Frishberg, including the bittersweet "Long Daddy Green" (co-written by Blossom Dearie) and the touching ballad "Heart's Desire" by Ken Dryden  
Tracklist :
1     It's Only a Paper Moon 7:15
Lyrics By – E.Y. Harburg
Music By – Billy Rose    
2     My Heart Belongs to Daddy 4:52
Cole Porter
3     Long Daddy Green 5:45
Lyrics By – Blossom Dearie
Music By – Dave Frishberg
4     Fever 4:58
Lyrics By – Eddie Cooley
Music By – John Davenport    
5     It's All Right with Me 4:37
Cole Porter
6     Then I'll Be Tired of You 4:23
Lyrics By – Arthur Schwartz
Music By – E.Y. Harburg
7     Cry Me a River 5:22
Arthur Hamilton
8     Love Me or Leave Me 4:54
Lyrics By – Walter Donaldson
Music By – Gus Kahn
9     Heart's Desire 3:54
Lyrics By – Alan Broadbent
Music By – Dave Frishberg
10     Whatever Lola Wants 5:38
Lyrics By – Jerry Ross
Music By – Richard Adler    
11     Skylark 5:50
Lyrics By – Hoagy Carmichael
Music By – Johnny Mercer
Credits :
Arranged By – The Tierney Sutton Band
Bass – Kevin Axt (faixas: 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11), Trey Henry (faixas: 1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 11)
Drums – Ray Brinker
Piano – Christian Jacob
Vocals – Tierney Sutton

TIERNEY SUTTON — After Blue (2013) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Tierney Sutton claims she had never really encountered Joni Mitchell until she heard the songwriter's 2000 album Both Sides Now, a collection mainly comprised of standards. (An album she holds in the same regard as Frank Sinatra's In the Wee Small Hours and Billie Holiday's Lady in Satin.) In 2011 she performed four of Mitchell's songs during a performance with the Turtle Island String Quartet; that gig set this project in motion. After Blue is Sutton's first offering that doesn’t include her regular band -- its members were involved with other projects at the time. Instead, her collaborators are a collection of jazz luminaries who include Peter Erskine, Larry Goldings, Ralph Humphrey, Hubert Laws, the TISQ, and Al Jarreau, who duets on "Be Cool" (the only track to feature one of Sutton's own musicians, bassist Kevin Axt). Sutton reads Mitchell by moving through the songwriter's various creative periods, embracing the singer/songwriter's jazz leanings in her phrasing, improvisation, and syncopation, and their shared love of the Great American Songbook. This last notion is evidenced by Sutton's version of "Don’t Go to Strangers" and "Answer Me My Love," both of which Mitchell poignantly delivered on Both Sides Now. She also seamlessly melds closer "Freeman in Paris" with "April in Paris." Other standouts include "Blue" and "Little Green" with TISQ, the fingerpopping "The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines" with Laws, Erskine, and Goldings, and the swinging, thoroughly re-envisioned "Big Yellow Taxi." On "Both Sides Now," she is accompanied only by Mark Summer's cello. For those accustomed to hearing Sutton re-interpreting standards from the golden era, After Blue retains her trademark gifts of phrasing, restraint, and emotional honesty. But as an album, it is just as remarkable as Herbie Hancock's The Joni Letters in its creative rapprochement of Mitchell's music with the jazz tradition, and reveals Sutton at a vocal and interpretive peak.
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Tracklist :
1     Blue 4:11
Joni Mitchell
2     All I Want 3:28
Joni Mitchell
3     Court and Spark 4:57
Joni Mitchell
4     Don't Go to Strangers 5:56
Redd Evans / Arthur Kent / Dave Mann
5     The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines 5:15
Charles Mingus / Joni Mitchell
6     Big Yellow Taxi 3:06
Joni Mitchell
7     Woodstock 6:08
Joni Mitchell
8     Little Green 4:53
Joni Mitchell
9     Be Cool 5:50
Joni Mitchell
10     Answer Me My Love 3:45
Fred Rauch / Carl Sigman / Gerhard Winkler
11     Both Sides Now 5:11
Joni Mitchell
12     April in Paris/Free Man in Paris 5:36
Vernon Duke / E.Y. "Yip" Harburg / Joni Mitchell
Credits :
Acoustic Bass – Kevin Axt (faixas: 4)
Arranged By – David Balakrishnan (faixas: 1), Julie Bernstein (faixas: 8), Kevin Axt (faixas: 9), Mark Summer (faixas: 2, 11), Serge Merlaud (faixas: 10), Tierney Sutton (faixas: 9, 12)
Cello – Mark Summer (faixas: 1, 8)
Drums – Peter Erskine (faixas: 5, 9), Ralph Humphrey (faixas: 6)
Flute – Hubert Laws (faixas: 5, 9)
Guest – Al Jarreau (faixas: 9)
Guitar – Serge Merlaud (faixas: 4, 10)
Organ [Hammond] – Larry Goldings (faixas: 3, 5, 7, 9, 12)
Piano – Larry Goldings (faixas: 3, 5, 7, 9, 12)
Viola – Benjamin von Gutzeit (faixas: 1, 8)
Violin – David Balakrishnan (faixas: 1, 8), Mateusz Smoczyński (faixas: 1, 8)
Vocals – Tierney Sutton

FRANK MACCHIA - Folk Songs for Jazzers (2009) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Entire jazz albums devoted to folk songs are rare, though many of the songs within Frank Macchia's CD have been recorded by jazz bands at one time or another. But Macchia succeeds because the multi-reed player puts his own stamp on these familiar melodies with imaginative charts that keep the listener guessing. A perfect example is the opening track, "I've Been Working on the Railroad," which has stops in swing, Latin, and New Orleans, all with playful solos and tight ensemble work. The cool-toned setting of "Oh! Susanna" sounds straight out of the '50s, with rich writing for reeds and brass. Perhaps the most startling piece is the fusion rendition of "The Arkansas Traveler" utilizing electric keyboards, guitar, and bass in a big, brassy, in-your-face manner. Macchia transforms "Erie Canal" into a funky vehicle for Bill Reichenbach on tuba, while vocalist Tierney Sutton is added for "Red River Valley" with Grant Geissman's jarring electric guitar providing contrast in the background. There's never a dull moment in Frank Macchia's arrangements of these well-known tunes, and there remains a wealth of traditional folk melodies that are ripe for his future experiments. by Ken Dryden 
Tracklist :
1    I've Been Working On The Railroad    5:37
2    Red River Valley    5:42
3    Skip To My Lou    3:54
4    Oh, Susanna    6:50
5    Did You Ever See A Lassie    5:21
6    Polly Wolly Doodle    5:35
7    Tom Dooley    7:40
8    The Arkansas Traveller    4:50
9    Amazing Grace    6:56
10    The Erie Canal    5:40
11    Hush, Little Baby    5:03
12    The Blue Tail Fly    4:30
13    Kumbaya    5:08
14    On Top Of Old Smokey    6:11
Credits :
Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass – Trey Henry
Alto Saxophone, Piccolo Flute, Flute, Flute [Bass], Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Sal Lozano
Baritone Saxophone, Bass Saxophone, Piccolo Flute, Flute, Flute [Bass], Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, English Horn – Jay Mason
Drums, Other [Motivation] – Peter Erskine
Electric Guitar, Banjo – Grant Geissman
Piano, Electric Piano – Tom Ranier
Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Piccolo Flute, Flute, Flute [Alto], Flute [Bass], Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Bob Sheppard
Tenor Saxophone, Piccolo Flute, Flute, Flute [Alto, Flute [Bass], Flute [Contrabass], Clarinet, Alto Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Contrabass Clarinet – Frank Macchia
Trombone, Bass Trombone, Horn [Baritone], Tuba – Bill Reichenbach
Trombone, Bass Trombone, Tuba, Horn [Baritone] – Kevin Porter
Trombone, Horn [Baritone], Tuba – Alex Iles
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Wayne Bergeron
Vibraphone, Bongos, Tambourine, Shaker, Spoons – Ray Frisby
Vocals – Ellis Hall (pistas: 9), Tierney Sutton (pistas: 2)