The Tierney Sutton Band is currently celebrating its 3rd consecutive Grammy Nomination for “Best Vocal Jazz Album”. During a collaboration that has spanned 17 years, they have also been awarded a JazzWeek Award for Vocalist of the Year, consecutive nominations for Jazz Journalist Association awards, recorded several #1 CDs on jazz radio, and garnered critical praise throughout the world. Comprised of acclaimed vocalist Tierney Sutton and instrumental virtuosos Christian Jacob, Trey Henry, Kevin Axt and Ray Brinker, the band is an incorporated partnership and a model of both musical and business unity. Members of The Tierney Sutton Band have played and recorded with a diverse array of music legends including Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Placido Domingo, Bonnie Raitt, James Taylor and countless others, yet the Tierney Sutton Band has demanded and received their commitment for almost two decades. They have headlined in recent years at Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center and have recorded eight CDs to increasing recognition and acclaim. The band’s album “On The Other Side” has been called by BusinessWeek “A Masterpiece ...eloquent, honest and magnificently sung and played.” and the band’s most recent CD, “Desire”, has been described by the Chicago Sun Times as “a conceptual masterpiece”.

Critics agree that the reason this band endures is in the music: "Here and throughout the performance, Ms. Sutton conveyed a sense of jazz singing as an extension of spiritual meditation in which adherence to an ideal of balance and consistency and, yes, humility took precedence over any technical or emotional grandstanding. Ms. Sutton is a pure jazz spirit who respects a song. Even when going out on an improvisatory limb, she never lets its essence slip away. The singer and her trio with whom she has worked for years - Christian Jacob on piano, Kevin Axt on bass and Ray Brinker on drums - have refined the kind of rapport that could only be achieved over time. Her deep, lingering renditions of chestnuts like “Blue Skies” and “Without a Song” are especially impressive for the sense of quiet joy she breathes into them." -THE NEW YORK TIMES

"With certain singers, it’s possible to pinpoint the specific recordings that marked the transition from great to iconic. As with Ella Fitzgerald’s Songbooks for Norman Granz or Frank Sinatra’s initial teaming with Nelson Riddle at Capital, Tierney Sutton’s sixth disc is her passport into the classic. Sutton’s brilliance is her ability to blend seamlessly with the three superlative bandmates (pianist Christian Jacob, bassist Trey Henry (here alternating with Kevin Axt) and drummer Ray Brinker who have been integral to her escalating success for more than a decade. Providing a continuous flow of support, strength and inspiration, they are her Granz, her Riddle. -JAZZTIMES

"[Sutton] gave plenty of space to pianist Christian Jacob, who became the focal point of a terpsichorean “Blue Skies” and encouraged her offbeat two-bassist rhythm section to swing with abandon on “Cheek to Cheek”.That clearly heartfelt equanimity doesn't diminish Sutton’s burgeoning star power one whit. A diva might cede a corner of the spotlight reluctantly, but she has learned that allowing her accompanists to shine as brightly as they’d like only illuminates her more brilliantly. Her scatting boasts a clean airborne quality, and the lady can swing. A big asset is the assured assist from her trio, which has been with Sutton long enough to bond with an uncanny display of spirit and unity." -VARIETY

"...soft as silk and smooth as fine bourbon." -CHICAGO SUN TIMES “top-flight...one and all...Sutton swings effortlessly and then gets out of the way and lets the boys shine. And shine they do...” -L.A. DAILY NEWS