Track Listing

1. Remember Me (Recordame)
2. Early Autumn
3. Timeless Place (The Peacocks)
4. Bernie's Tune
5. Spring Is Here
6. Joy Spring
7. All for One (Speak No Evil)
8. (Back Home Again In) Indiana/Donna Lee
9. When Lights Are Low
10. Con Alma

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7647 in Music
• Released on: 2000-04-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.com
Tierney Sutton is a genuine jazz singer, a clear-voiced soprano with sure pitch and diction who concentrates on musical substance. Her approach can suggest Sheila Jordan or Norma Winstone, and she's equally effective at quick bop, medium-swing tempos, and moody ballads. The "unsung heroes" she invokes are the great instrumentalists who have inspired her and whose compositions are seldom sung, like Joe Henderson ("Remember Me" is his "Recordame"), Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, and Wayne Shorter. Her phrasing is often trumpet-like on the improvised solos, and she gets terrific support from a trio led by pianist Christian Jacob and guest soloists who include Stan Kenton veteran Buddy Childers on flügelhorn. There's an almost unearthly purity of vocals in her subtle version of "Spring Is Here," but the absolute highlight is the Jimmy Rowles tune "A Timeless Place (The Peacocks)," with lyrics by Winstone. It's a demanding line with difficult harmony that Sutton weaves perfectly with Jacob and Gary Foster on alto flute. --Stuart Broomer

Customer Reviews

Pure Artistry
This album takes more than one listening to fully appreciate. The songs do not "reach out" and grab one on the first hearing probably because one is trying to synchronize the superb orchestration, the voice, the interpretations. The voice reminds one of her co-singer, Cheryl Bentyne, not in tone but in enunciation, clarity and fragility. I must point out that the instrumentation is knockout, just incredible.

There is a mood on this CD that is more playful than soulful, not as deeply blue as the Frank Sinatra CD, but just as inspiring in its own way. "Remember Me" is one of those that grows with repeated hearings; "A Timeless Place" is a wonderful ballade, "All for One" a celebration of Ms. Sutton's brilliance and the final "Con Alma" a sweet, soulful conclusion to one of the best works around.

Buy this for "Donna Lee"
This was Tierney Sutton's second album, and it was a harbinger for the tremendous "Something Cool." While it's not at the level of the latter (only because nothing else is, really), it's abolutely worth having. The album's highlight is Ms. Sutton's medley of "Back Home Again In Indiana" and Charlie Parker's "Donna Lee"--probably the most unlikely medley in history, and one that works. Another is "Bernie's Tune". Here, Ms. Sutton demonstrates her ability to sing at breakneck speed with perfect diction and intonation. As always, her sidemen--the wonderful Christian Jacob, Trey Henry and Ray Brinker--are perfect. Although it's not quite as consistent as her later albums, you can't go wrong with this one. Buy it.

Once in a Generation
I can see from the reviews of this and her other three albums that there are some people out there who realize what is going on here. Bill Evans comes to mind. It does not matter whether you listen to him on an intellectual level or an emotional level, from the opening notes you can't ignore him. The same can be said of Tierney Sutton. The bar has been raised, and, right now, there's Tierney, and then there's everbody else. Jimmy Rowles, The Peacocks, cannot be a comfortable song to sing, musically it has to be an uncomfortable situation, and yet she pulls it off, with a great deal of help from Christian Jacob et al. Spring is Here is a classic example of the voice as an intregal instument in a group setting. I happen to know that my CD cabinet holds 1,000 CD's, it is full, and a few more have slopped over onto the table. Unsung Heroes is in the top 10 in that collection, and it says a lot that her other three CD's are also on that short list.