A Master Class With Jazz Musician Tierney Sutton

I’ve worked everywhere on the spectrum — from accompanying wannabe crooners in high school choirs, to gigging professionally with Grammy winners. We desperately need new language to describe the vanilla la-la vocal “stylings” of the singers featured in this report, from Sutton right on down. Using a deep and meaningful term like “jazz” to describe that melodically stale, harmonically sterile, rhythmically lazy wash of emotionless sound demeans the very concept.

Tierney Sutton is a FORCE. Her creativity and musicianship are obvious. What I’m astounded by is her INTONATION, and her commitment to it. A supreme musician, and someone who has kept me optimistic about the future of jazz singers! The fact that she is working with students and doing workshops — well that just cements her in my heart! Thank you Tierney!