★★★★★
Tierney Sutton inhabits songs as few vocalists can or do: with a certain vulnerability and powerful drama that imbues each song with an electricity that sends tingles up and down the spine. These singular characteristics melt into her sense of how to vary her phrasing with such subtlety that, if the inner ear is not tuned in to her voice, the magic vanishes in the flashes of lightning that appear every now and then as she sings...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2011-11-30
★★★★★
The most egalitarian of jazz units, the members of the Tierney Sutton Band--Sutton on vocals, Christian Jacob at the piano, dual bassists Kevin Axt and Trey Henry and drummer/percussionist Ray Brinker--have spent 16 years living in and out of one another's musical pockets. They know, and appreciate, their fellow players as thoroughly and intimately as family. Now, for its ninth album, the band moves beyond investigation of the Great American Songbook to exploration of, simply, America...
- jazztimes.com
2011-11-14
★★★★★
Maybe it's a sign of the times, but happiness appears to be pursued more vigorously than before...and with less satisfying results. Will Smith's movie character, the initially hapless Chris Gardner, certainly found the "happyness" he sought...and more. Very few are as fortunate. Part of the reason is an unrealistic nature of expectations. Part of the reason involves the differing needs of people that enable happiness...
- www.jazzreview.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Track Listing: Get Happy - (Version 1); Happy Days Are Here Again - (Version 1); You Are My Sunshine; Glad To Be Unhappy;Sometimes I'm Happy; Happy Talk; Haunted Heart; I Want To Be Happy; Make Someone Happy; Great Day;Happy Days Are Here Again (version 2); Get Happy - (Version 2); Smile. Personnel: Tierney Sutton: vocals; Christian Jacob: piano; Trey Henry, Kevin Axt: bass instrument; Ray Brinker: drums...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Track Listing: It's Only a Paper Moon; My Heat Belongs to Daddy; Long Daddy Green;Fever; It's All Right With Me; Then I'll Be Tired of You; Cry Me aRiver; Love Me or Leave Me; Heart's Desire; Whatever Lola Wants;Skylark. Personnel: Tierney Sutton: vocals; Christian Jacob: piano; Trey Henry, KevinAxt: bass instrument; Ray Brinker: drums. Style: Vocal Read more reviews of Desire Dark chocolate is a beautifully nefarious romantic ideal...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05