NEW MUSIC TUESDAY: Jesse Harris and Tierney Sutton Release New Albums

Tree Lawn Artists is happy to announce the release of two albums today:

After over a year of touring as a duo, playing the 6-string banjo with a Brazilian-based percussionist, JESSE HARRIS decided to make that surprisingly full and efficient instrumentation the foundation of his new album Watching The Sky. Expanding upon the rhythmic direction of his previous release, Feel, this new recording is centered around the backbone percussion of Mauro Refosco (David Byrne, Bebel Gilberto, Forro In The Dark) who also plays vibes, marimba, and keyboards; and augmented by the versatile bass and guitar playing of his old pal from The Ferdinandos, Tony Scherr (Bill Frisell, Willie Nelson, Jenny Scheinman).

TIERNEY SUTTON, a leading figure in vocal jazz for nearly a decade, seeks the path to the true self in her new recording, Desire. This philosophical and spiritual approach to cutting a jazz record is not as new for the Tierney Sutton Band as it may seem. Sutton and her fellow musicians - pianist Christian Jacob, bassists Trey Henry and Kevin Axt, and drummer Ray Brinker - have been interpreting various standards from this perspective for the fifteen years that they've been together. Tierney maintains that the obsession with fame and material things - a phenomenon that has been accelerated and amplified in this media-centric new century - is wasted energy. Worse yet, it comes with a dark aspect that can infect the soul.