It started seven years ago with a special concert at a private studio. It climaxes with the release of From the Hip (BFM Jazz, 2013) by...

This soulful and sensitive quintet album mellows with every listen Steve Gadd is the in-demand drum-session maestro who invented the...

Jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton has earned a Grammy nomination for her latest release, homage to revered pop singer-songwriter Joni...

I’ve looked at Joni from both sides now From pop and blues, and still somehow It’s Joni’s illusions I recall I really don’t know Joni…at...

Honoring giants who have made a great contribution in the entertainment industry is common place. But very few lack the audacity to do...

The music of Joni Mitchell has been praised by critics throughout the years for its lyrical beauty and musicality, and lately her songs...

This quartet features artists who aren’t household names to the general public, but are quite well known in the jazz world. All have...

My path to the music of Joni Mitchell was a bit unconventional. Unlike many of my peers, I was not a teenage Mitchell devotee. I became...

Tierney Sutton is a singularly modern chanteuse. She pairs the bright, articulate pitch of a cabaret vocalist with the guts of a jazz...

“Sutton doesn’t grandstand. She climbs inside a melody and explores new territory. The pleasure of hearing standards involves the...

Over the course of her career, jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton has taken on one of the most challenging tasks for any musician: putting a...

Tierney Sutton is the calm current flowing through the turbulent water of jazz vocals, making big changes and important recordings...

This is another gem in a very long string of gems from talented West Coast singer Tierney Sutton. (Never mind that she’s a Midwesterner...

Joni Mitchell and jazz have long engaged in mutualism. Mitchell subtly absorbed the ideals of this music, which were then filtered into...

After nine CDs over 20 years with her longstanding Tierney Sutton Band, the five-time Grammy-nominated Jazz vocalist decided to leave her...

Tierney Sutton claims she had never really encountered Joni Mitchell until she heard the songwriter's 2000 album Both Sides Now, a...

When Tierney Sutton was recording for Telarc, I always felt that she had great promise but that she tried too hard, sometimes resulting...

The drummer Steve Gadd has been on my radar ever since I became aware of a super group formed back in the mid-seventies called Stuff. The...

TIERNEY SUTTON/After Blue: In which we find Sutton leaving the comfort zone of her long time band and the great American song book (but...

On Friday October 4, vocalist Tierney Sutton returns to Connecticut (she attended and graduated from Wesleyan University) with her...