After Blue

After nine CDs over 20 years with her longstanding Tierney Sutton band, the five-time Grammy-nominated Jazz vocalist decided to leave her comfort zone and leap off the cliff by tackling an homage to the revered pop singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell. With After Blue, her most daring and revealing project to date, Sutton puts her own unique stamp on familiar Mitchell tunes going back to 1969s "Both Sides Now" and 1970s "Big Yellow Taxi" and including more recent numbers like 1979s "The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines" and 1982s jivey "Be Cool," along with Jonis take on the standard "Dont Go to Strangers" from her 2000 orchestral album, Both Sides Now.