Something Cool

Artist: Tierney Sutton
Label: Telarc
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 089408354823
EAN: 0089408354823
ASIN: B00006J9T0

Release Date: 2002-09-24

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Tracks:

(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66!
Something Cool
Wouldn't It Be Loverly
I've Grown Accustomed To His Face
Show Me
Comes Love
Reflections
Alone Together
Out Of This World
All Or Nothing At All
Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
Walkin' After Midnight
Crazy
The Best Is Yet To Come

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Dancing in the Dark
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Blue in Green
Introducing Tierney Sutton
Unsung Heroes

Customer Reviews:

Jenny Davis, Port Townsend WA.......2005-04-30

As a jazz vocalist (musician), I have to say Tierney Sutton is a jazz singer's singer! Ding Dong was inspirational, Show me is phenomenal. The tempo and time changes kept me interested. Some reviews have said that mixing the mood with ballads and uptempo, ruined it for them. Folks, thats jazz. Tierney Sutton is a jazz musician. I listen to this CD and feel inspired. The tunes were perfectly mixed with uptempo and ballads. It shows how versitle she is and how interesting she is as a musician. Can't wait to see her live someday! Absolutely Great! Highly recommend to all jazz singers/musicians. Go Tierney!

Great ballads, arrangements that grow on you.......2005-02-18

I saw the sweet, clever, catlike Tierney Sutton perched on a stool at Blues Alley in a sequined top last year. She puts on a great show. She has marvelous purring technique, she always hit notes dead center of the pitch. Without a pitch cue, she sang acapella for nearly five minutes before the rest of the band came in and came in right on pitch. Incredible. I asked her if she had perfect pitch, and she said "no", but it sounded like it to me. She never hits a note flat or sharp. She has perfect breath/ volume control, she breathes the song. (listen to the begining of Route 66.)

Best songs, most immediately appealing and enchanting are ballads and andante pieces. Ones with true emotion. "Something Cool" on the other hand, when she wants to, shows her ability to hold an audience in the palm of her hand. "Comes Love", "Refections", "Alone Together" "Out of this World" are luminous!

The French for singing, "chant", has the same root as "enchanting". Entertaining music should be enchanting, cast a spell. Tierney & group, on some of these tracks, shows off technique and imaginative arrangement, but can destroy the mood of the song. "Ding dong the Witch" (scat) is irritating, but it wouldn't be memorable if it were sung straight! The tempos in "The Best is Yet to Come" and "Show me" seem too fast.

So some wonderful songs, some that take getting used to and an irritating one. Her great technique is captured on this album, which is it's strength and sometimes it's weaknesss. Back-up band is spot-on perfect, especially Trey Henry on bass.

For an album of more immediate appeal, (more even enchanting?) Tierney Sutton's new Sinatra Tribute "Dancing in the Dark". She shows how she can weave a more consistent spell, when she focuses more on feeling.

I found after I listen to this album, more, I guess I get used to some of the things, which initially seemed jarring, so it really grows on you. Her rendition of "Route 66" shows wonderful control of pitch and volume and is one of my favorites. What Tierney and gang are trying to do, as a Jazz group, not Pop, is to find innovative ways of presenting songs we are quite familiar with, to catch our attention. Mostly, they succeed.

I wish I could raise my rating to 5 stars, now.

Recording quality is truely State of the Art, recorded with the listed audiophile equipment, especially on the SACD version.

BRILLIANT ! (but not for scat-phobes).......2005-02-03

This is an amazing album. I can't stop listening to Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!. And her scatting is amazing. I am playing it for everyone I can get to listen. Those who don't appreciate or simply don't like scatting probably won't like this album however.

I Was Right.......2004-03-28

I said in a review of another album that I thought Tierney Sutton and her band might be the real deal. I was right. I can't stop listening to her

A special first encounter.......2004-01-21

With most female vocalists, I either fall in love with the voice or I am left totally cold. Occasionally I have no opinion but mostly it's one way or the other in the extreme. With Tierney Sutton, I'm in love with the voice. Completely in love with the voice. This was my first encounter with Ms Sutton but it will not be the last--her others albums are on my wish list and soon to be on my CD changer.

Reading previous reviews, I can see how some people might not respond to her voice. Someone said the presentation was cold and compared it to opera. That's odd to me since Maria Callas is sometimes able to bring me to tears when she sings an aria in a language I cannot even understand. Someone else hated it because they don't like scatting. I'm not big on scatting either but it's not going to ruin my day when it's done by someone with a voice like Ms Sutton's.

It's all in what you respond to in the music. I give this 5 stars without reservations.

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