Rachel Sutton

Rachel Sutton (* in Kent ) is a British jazz singer , songwriter and actress .

Live and act

Rachel Sutton is from Kent and grew up listening to jazz and the music of Stevie Wonder and Joni Mitchell . After studying theater at Glamorgan University and the Welsh College of Music and Drama , she played leading roles in Shakespeare plays. In the early 2010s she sang in the award-winning rock musical The Inconsiderate Aberrations of Billy the Kid in Edinburgh. Her role in Roland Perrin's Lansky: The Mob's Money Man in London also received critical acclaim.

Sutton has appeared as a singer at the Edinburgh and New York Fringe Festivals, as well as in jazz clubs and venues in the UK and abroad. In 2020 she released her debut album A Million Conversations (33 Records), which she recorded with Roland Perrin (piano), Michael Curtis Ruiz (double bass), Paul Robinson (drums) and Stuart Brooks (trumpet). It contains compositions written by her with Perrin in addition to the two standards "Brother Can You Spare a Dime?" And "Evil Gal Blues" as well as one song each by Leonard Feather and Lionel Hampton . The Bebop Spoken Here blog highlighted the high quality of their lyrics; The Jazz Journal praised Sutton's “honest, emotionally controlled singing, without mannerism or unnecessary detail.” In Jazz View, Sammy Stein highlighted her natural-looking ability to occasionally sing just below the note on individual notes and then step on the note; he came to the judgment "impressive album", the music of which is "of the highest quality".

Web links

• Web presence
• Rachel Sutton at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sammy Stein: Rachel Sutton - A Million Conversations. In: Jazz Views. Retrieved May 8, 2020 . 
2. ↑ CD Review: Rachel Sutton - A Million Conversations. Bebop Spoken Here, May 6, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Nigel Jarrett: Rachel Sutton: A Million Conversations. Jazz Journal, February 24, 2020, accessed May 7, 2020 .