During its 15 years together, the Tierney Sutton Band has received three Grammy Nominations for Best Vocal Jazz Album, a JazzWeek Award for Vocalist of the Year, consecutive nominations for Jazz Journalist Association Awards, recorded several CDs that made the #1 spot on jazz radio playlists, and garnered critical praise throughout the world. “Ms. Sutton is a pure jazz spirit who respects a song,” raves The New York Times. “Her scatting boasts a clean airborne quality, and the lady can swing” says Variety. While Tierney Sutton delves deeply into the American Songbook, she is solidly in the mainstream jazz tradition. “We are all jazz musicians, committed to improvising,” says Sutton. “There’s always a sense that it’s going to be really different each night. We most often place freedom in the arrangement. For example, in our version of Happy Days Are Here Again, we have triggers in the arrangement and we use those to play off of, with harmonic shifts in different places.”
