Tierney Sutton: "After Blue" The Joni Mitchell Project
SUNDAY, JULY 31
Artist's Website: Tierney Sutton
Featuring: Mark Summer & Serge Merlaud
The Tierney Sutton Band is currently celebrating its 3rd consecutive Grammy Nomination for “Best Vocal Jazz Album”. During a collaboration that has spanned 17 years, they have also been awarded a JazzWeek Award for Vocalist of the Year, consecutive nominations for Jazz Journalist Association awards, recorded several #1 CDs on jazz radio, and garnered critical praise throughout the world. Members of The Tierney Sutton Band have played and recorded with a diverse array of music legends including Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Placido Domingo, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor and countless others, yet the Tierney Sutton Band has demanded and received their commitment for almost two decades. They have headlined in recent years at Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center and have recorded eight CDs to increasing recognition and acclaim. The band’s album “On The Other Side” has been called by BusinessWeek “A Masterpiece ...eloquent, honest and magnificently sung and played.” and the band’s most recent CD, “Desire”, has been described by the Chicago Sun Times as “a conceptual masterpiece”.