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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

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ScreenPlay: Act 1  “The Bergman Suite”

Songs by legendary lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman

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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:

  1. The Windmills of your Mind (The Thomas Crowne Affair 1968, 99)
  2. What Are You Doing The Rest Of your Life? (The Happy Ending, 1969)
  3. How Do You Keep The Music Playing? (Best Friends, 1982)
  4. It Might Be You (Tootsie, 1982)
  5. 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

Download Act One Booklet

ScreenPlay: Act 2  “Technicolor”

Songs from the 1930s and 1940s

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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:

  1. I’ve Got No Strings (Pinocchio, 1940)
  2. If I Only Had A Brain (The Wizard Of Oz, 1939)
  3. The Trolley Song (Meet Me In St Louis, 1944)
  4. It Might As Well Be Spring (State Fair, 1945)

Personnel:

Vocals: Tierney Sutton
Piano: Christian Jacob
Bass: Trey Henry
Bass: Kevin Axt
Drums: Ray Brinker
Guitar: Serge Merlaud (I’ve Got No Strings)
Download Act Two Booklet

ScreenPlay: Act 3  “Golden Age”

Songs from the 1950s and 1960s

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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:

  1. The Sound Of Silence (The Graduate, 1967)
  2. Moon River/Calling You (Breakfast At Tiffany’s, 1961/Bagdad Cafe, 1987)
  3. Two For The Road (Two For The Road, 1967)
  4. Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953)

Personnel:

Vocals: Tierney Sutton
Piano: Christian Jacob
Bass: Trey Henry
Bass: Kevin Axt
Drums: Ray Brinker
Download Act Three Booklet

ScreenPlay: Act 4  “Montage”

Songs from the 1970s and 1980s

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Welcome to the Tierney Sutton Band’s “ScreenPlay Act 4 – Montage”

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:

  1. On A Clear Day (On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, 1970)
  2. Hopelessly Devoted To You (Grease, 1978)
  3. You’re The One That I Want (Grease, 1978)
  4. Goodbye For Now (Reds, 1981)

Personnel:

Vocals: Tierney Sutton
Piano: Christian Jacob
Bass: Trey Henry
Bass: Kevin Axt
Drums: Ray Brinker
Download Act Four Booklet

ScreenPlay: Act 5  “The Sully Variations”

Coming June, 2019

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All Music composed and arranged by Christian Jacob, Tierney Sutton and The Tierney Sutton Band for Clint Eastwood’s “Sully”

Track Listing:

  1. Arrow
  2. Sully Suite   
  3. Flying Home: Sully’s Theme

Personnel:

Vocals: Tierney Sutton
Piano: Christian Jacob
Bass: Trey Henry
Bass: Kevin Axt
Drums: Ray Brinker

“Fifteen tunes we have often heard— but never this creatively. The result is a showcase that is unique, engaging, and—in terms of how Sutton, pianist Christian Jacob, bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt and drummer Ray Brinker collectively speak—brilliant.”

Nick Mondello, All About Jazz

“Each tune is skillfully arranged as jazz, so well that it’s hard to believe that they were ever played any other way. The singing is beautiful, Ms Sutton really knows how to use her voice as an instrument, and each song tells a story, acted out well. It goes without saying that the musicians are stellar… This may well be my CD of the Month, or even of the Year.”

Ann Alex, Bebop Spoken Here

“With her cool tone and keen emotional intelligence, she’s one of jazz’s most accomplished vocalists, (with 8 Grammy Nominations)  and it’s a safe bet that her new album ScreenPlay will stretch her streak to nine.”

Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News

“Sutton’s vocal chops and her phrasing are impeccable. …The effect is so stunningly beautiful and emotionally profound that it seems as if we are hearing these classics come prima (for the first time). …It is an aural Oscar.”

Nick Mondello, All About Jazz

“The Tierney Sutton Band has created a brilliant novel in A minor and the musicians with whom Tierney has flourished since FDR’s 1932 election, are profound in their deep understanding of that novel.”

Jonathan Schwartz

“There are only two kinds of Sutton fans—those who love her and those who haven’t heard her yet…  A definitive collection that puts the essential spin on this load of classics.  A total jazz and vocal delight, Sutton has hit the high spot yet again.”

Chris Spector, Midwest Record

The Tierney Sutton Band embarks upon perfection with Screen Play,… rich and rewarding.

D.Oscar Groomes, O’s Place Jazz

“Exquisite…top tier”

Ken Frankling, Jazz-Notes

“Absolutely gorgeous vocals….unusual and gripping ….breezy…delicious”

Michael Dougherty, Music Log

“High art that’s spellbinding and eminently listenable”

Dan Bilawsky

“A voice as warm and inviting as a summer sunrise…not only is Ms. Sutton an interpreter of the lyrical content, she lends believability to the stories. Tierney Sutton and her band always entertain with excellence and creativity, painting each arrangement with fresh colors…”

Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs

“Another in an enviable string of shape-shifting releases by The Tierney Sutton Band.”

Pierre Giroux, Audiophile Audition

“An uncanny ability for taking a song a part, and putting it back together in a context that sounds unique. Making well-loved songs sound new understated, but not underwhelming music that makes audiences question what they understood about the music previously.”

Dodie Mille-Gould, Lemonwire

“The excellence of this album derives as much from the Sutton Band’s fresh arrangements as from the compositional élan of the album’s many beloved songs. Even outside a celluloid context these tunes still pack an emotional punch.”

Suzanne Lorge, NYC Jazz Record

“Mysticism and magic…artistically engaging and sonically gratifying.”

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