The Tierney Sutton Band

Yahoo!!

Get out and see Tierney Sutton and her band tonight.

I ended up out at Performance Works on Granville Island last night as much by accident as by design and that worked out well. Tierney Sutton and her band put on a great show (a long show too, started at about 9:15 pm and we hit the streets just before midnight with a 20 minute break to sign CDs).

Sutton is a powerful and varied singer moving from Frank Sinatra standards to "Ding, Dong the Witch is Dead" with amazing facility. And for me the standards worked better with most bands, I think it had something to do with Tierney's assertion that it was a band dictum that no standard should remain recognizable, which I thought they did an admirable job on.

The best part for me was the fact that they (Tierney Sutton vocalist, Christian Jacob piano, Kevin Axt bass, Ray Brinker drums) played together. No noodling solos on every song, just brief solos at the end of each set. The artists and the instruments worked to integrate their individual sounds together in a whole that was much greater than the parts. They also appeared to not be too cool to have fun, with each other, the audience, and the music. Yahoo!!

Great show and if I didn't have a hard ticket for Holly Cole I'd be tempted to go back to PW and Tierney Sutton tonight.