Tierney Sutton
| Tierney Sutton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 28, 1963 Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz, vocal jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Labels | Telarc, BFM |
| Website | www |
Tierney Sutton (born June 28, 1963) is an American jazz singer who has received multiple Grammy Award nominations.
Sutton was born in Omaha, Nebraska and educated at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.
For 20 years, she has led the Tierney Sutton Band featuring pianist Christian Jacob, bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt, and drummer Ray Brinker. The band is an incorporated unit and makes all musical and business decisions together. They tour throughout the world and have headlined at Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. For eleven years, Sutton taught in the Jazz Studies Department at the University of Southern California. In 2008, she became the Vocal Department Chair at Los Angeles Music Academy in Pasadena, California.
She has been a Baha'i since 1981 and explains her band's arranging style as "based on the principle of consultation – the band is very much run on Baha'i principles. There is very much a sense that what we do is essentially a spiritual thing and everyone's voice needs to be heard." She has recently also been performing in a trio format with flautist Hubert Laws and guitarist Larry Koonse.
Paris Sessions (Varèse Sarabande, 2014) received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album in 2014, while The Sting Variations was nominated in the same category in 2016.
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