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The Sting Variations

The Sting Variations is an album by The Tierney Sutton Band. It earned the group a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

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The Sting Variations
Studio album by
The Tierney Sutton Band
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2016 (2016-09-09)
RecordedMay 2016
StudioLAFX Recording Services, The Doghouse Studio
GenreJazz
Length67:00
LabelBFM
ProducerTrey Henry
Tierney Sutton chronology
Paris Sessions
(2014) 		The Sting Variations
(2016)

The Sting Variations is an album by The Tierney Sutton Band.123 It earned the group a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album.4

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sting except where noted.

No.TitleLength
1."Driven to Tears"5:47
2."If You Love Somebody Set Them Free"5:53
3."Seven Days"6:17
4."Shadows in the Rain"4:37
5."Walking in Your Footsteps"3:50
6."Fragile/Gentle Rain" (Sting/Luiz Bonfá/Matt Dubey)4:37
7."Message in a Bottle"4:27
8."Fields of Gold"4:45
9."Fortress Around Your Heart"4:04
10."Language of Birds" (Sting/Rob Mathes)5:09
11."Every Little Thing He Does Is Magic"3:02
12."Every Breath You Take"4:46
13."Synchronicity I"4:11
14."Consider Me Gone"5:35

Personnel

  • Tierney Sutton – vocals
  • Christian Jacob – piano
  • Ray Brinker – drums, percussion
  • Kevin Axt – double bass
  • Trey Henry – double bass, bass guitar, arranger, producer
  • Zackary Darling – engineer, mixing
  • Michael Aarvold– mastering, mixing5
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