2019
ScreenPlay
A Project in 5 Acts
After 20-plus years, 8 Grammy nominations and countless performances in some of the finest venues in the world, L.A.-based Tierney Sutton Band has set their sights on the wide-ranging panorama of film music by releasing an ambitious 19-track collection of songs in five parts — “ScreenPlay.”
“ScreenPlay” spans the first century of American film music. The band gained firsthand experience in this idiom in 2016 when they were tapped by legendary director Clint Eastwood to score his box office hit “Sully”.
“In a sense this is the most organic project we’ve ever done”, says Sutton.
The arrangements and Sutton’s readings of the songs are pure Tierney Sutton Band at the height of its powers, subtly illuminating and revolutionizing each classic, as well as introducing a few lesser-known gems.
Wanting to dig ever deeper into the material, The Band has chosen to present this creative, new music in a creative, new way. 5 acts, each including 3 to 5 songs, will be released as a digital EP, once a month, beginning in February of 2019. A podcast and other behind-the-scenes material that explore the songs and the films that made them so iconic will accompany each of these acts. In May of 2019, a compilation ScreenPlay CD will be released worldwide.
Check Out The Companion ScreenPlay Podcast
Go behind the scenes to hear Tierney and Alan Bergman discuss the ScreenPlay project with the host of McIntyre In The Morning on KABC 790 Los Angeles and page-one columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News, Doug McIntyre.
Grammy Nominee: Best Jazz Vocal Album
Here’s a sample track
ScreenPlay: Act 1 “The Bergman Suite”
Songs by legendary lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Available now on your favorite download or streaming service
Featuring the work of perhaps the most influential film lyricists of all time, Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Act 1 contains 5 of their classics, including The Academy Award-winning “The Windmills of Your Mind” and “How Do You Keep The Music Playing”, which is framed as a duet with Sutton and Alan Bergman’s touching vocals.
Track Listing:
- The Windmills of your Mind (The Thomas Crowne Affair 1968, 99)
- What Are You Doing The Rest Of your Life? (The Happy Ending, 1969)
- How Do You Keep The Music Playing? (Best Friends, 1982)
- It Might Be You (Tootsie, 1982)
- Every Now And Then (Mullholland Falls, 1996)
Personnel:
Tierney Sutton: Vocals
Christian Jacob: Piano
Ray Brinker: Drums
Kevin Axt: Bass
Trey Henry: Bass
Serge Merlaud, Guitar
Alan Bergman, Vocal
ScreenPlay: Act 2 “Technicolor”
Songs from the 1930s and 1940s
Available now on your favorite download or streaming service
Welcome to “Technicolor” — The four songs featured here were penned from 1939–1945 and are full of fantasy, imagination and optimism, which offered a stark contrast to the state of the world at that time. Creating magical lands, they became some of the most indelible and enduring pieces in music history.
Track Listing:
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I’ve Got No Strings (Pinocchio, 1940)
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If I Only Had A Brain (The Wizard Of Oz, 1939)
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The Trolley Song (Meet Me In St Louis, 1944)
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It Might As Well Be Spring (State Fair, 1945)
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ScreenPlay: Act 3 “Golden Age”
Songs from the 1950s and 1960s
Available now in your favorite download or streaming service
Welcome to the third chapter from the TSB ScreenPlay collection. This time around we bring you four songs from the Golden Age. They possess many of the same characteristics as Broadway show songs from this period, although none of them actually appeared in a Broadway show. Powerful, emotional content combined with plot and character development, which many film directors of the same era wished to convey in their movies were the hallmarks of these songs. In this chapter, we explore the music of Paul Simon, Henry Mancini and Bob Telson including a Mancini/Telson mashup.
Track Listing:
- The Sound Of Silence (The Graduate, 1967)
- Moon River/Calling You (Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961/Bagdad Cafe, 1987)
- Two For The Road (Two For The Road, 1967)
- Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953)
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ScreenPlay: Act 4 “Montage”
Songs from the 1970s and 1980s
Available now in your favorite download or streaming service
This Act features classic film tunes from Lane/Lerner and Sondheim, and tosses in a couple surprise arrangements of tunes from the hit musical Grease!
Track Listing:
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On A Clear Day (On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, 1970)
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Hopelessly Devoted To You (Grease, 1978)
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You’re The One That I Want (Grease, 1978)
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Goodbye For Now (Reds, 1981)
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ScreenPlay: Act 5 “The Sully Variations”
Coming June, 2019
Track Listing:
- Arrow
- Sully Suite
- Flying Home: Sully’s Theme
Personnel:
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