Gold Coast Jazz Society 2023-2024 Concert Season

TIERNEY SUTTON
Tierney SuttonThe New York Times said that jazz vocalist, Tierney Sutton is “a serious jazz artist who takes the whole enterprise to another level.” Sutton has been a Jazzweek “Vocalist of the Year” awardee and a recipient of the LA Jazz Singer’s “Vocalist of the Year” award. A six-time Grammy nominee for “Best Vocal Album,” Sutton is often described as “a singer’s singer,” and “a musician’s singer” who uses her voice like an instrument. For over 20 years she fronted the Tierney Sutton Band, which includes pianist Christian Jacob, drummer Ray Brinker and bassists Kevin Axt and Trey Henry. Her band’s CDs have consistently topped the US jazz radio charts.

In addition to her work with her band, Sutton currently performs in a jazz trio with flautist Hubert Lewis and guitarist Larry Koonse. She is also be touring and recording with the award-winning Turtle Island Quartet over the next several years.

Sutton’s most recent CD is After Blue, a re-imagining of the legacy of Joni Mitchell. She has headlined in recent years at The Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center. She can also be heard on film and television soundtracks including The Academy Award-nominated film “The Cooler” as well as on television commercials (BMW, Green Giant, Yoplait Yogurt, and Coke)

As a music educator, Sutton taught for over a decade at USC’s Thornton School of music and is currently the Vocal Department Head at The Los Angeles Music Academy in Pasadena, CA where she has created a new curriculum for vocalists. Her former students include vocalists Sara Gazarek, Kathleen Grace and Gretchen Parlato. Tierney’s voice can often be heard on film and television soundtracks as well as on television commercials. Learn more at the artist’s website at www.tierneysutton.com


SHELLY BERG
Shelly BergAn accomplished pianist in both classical and jazz styles, Shelly Berg is a recording artist for Concord Music Group, and a Steinway piano artist. He has arranged and recorded with many award-winning artists. In 2007, Berg was appointed as Dean of the University of Miami’s Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music where he teaches both privately, in the Frost Experiential Music Curriculum, and administers the academic, musical and research pursuits of over 700 music students and 100 faculty. He was formerly the McCoy/Sample endowed music professor at USC Thornton School of Music where he taught for 16 years.

Berg is featured as an arranger and pianist on two Grammy and Latin Grammy Award winning Arturo Sandoval projects on the Concord label. His trio, the Shelly Berg Trio (Shelly Berg, piano; Gregg Field, drums; Chuck Bergeron, bass), recorded an all-Gershwin CD with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with José Serebrier, Conductor. His recent Grammy Award nominations include “Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist” for his arrangement of “Out There” on the CD Tales of the Unusual (Jazzed Media) featuring vocalist Lorraine Feather in 2013. In 2014 he was again nominated for “Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for his arrangement of “What a Wonderful World” on Gloria Estefan: The Standards (Sony Masterworks) and as co-produced for Gloria Estefan: The Standards in the Best Traditional Pop Album category, along with Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan.

Shelly performs at major music festivals and venues throughout the world, is the Music Director for an annual Jazz Cruise and was recently a featured speaker at the TEDxMIA conference on Miami Beach. He is also a featured performer on several concerts for UM’s annual Festival Miami. In 2012 he performed on piano and the B-3 organ at the Hollywood Bowl for a Ray Charles Tribute concert which was produced by Gregg Field. He appears regularly for the Gold Coast Jazz Society at the Broward Center and for Larry Rosen’s JazzRoots Series at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami.

Website: www.shellyberg.com

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