Tierney Sutton

Only five years after her first professional performance, Boston newspapers were complimenting Tierney Sutton with comparisons to the great Ella Fitzgerald. For most, the use of such a comparison would simply be exaggeration. But for this Wisconsin-born vocalist with superb intonation and rhythmic skills, and an ability to improvise with or without lyrics, the compliments are both honorable and well deserved. Backed by her trio of ten years, Christian Jacob (piano), Trey Henry (bass) and Ray Brinker (drums), Sutton offers an exciting evening of jazz, including songs from her latest critically-acclaimed Telarc CD “Dancing in the Dark.”

Tierney Sutton was a Russian major at Wesleyan University when she first heard the greats and fell in love with jazz. A scholarship took her Berklee College of Music in Boston, where within a few years she performed throughout New England, opening for such notables as Max Roach and the Billy Taylor Trio. In 1998, she was a semi-finalist in the Thelonius Monk Jazz Vocal Competition.