Following on from After Blue, Tierney Sutton’s very cool Joni Mitchell tribute, Paris Sessions (BFM Jazz), a very intimate standards-themed record endowed with a certain atmospheric natural hush to it, the US singer again joined by guitarist Serge Merlaud who has contributed three of his vocalese-rendered songs and by acoustic bass guitarist Kevin Axt, is to be released on Monday 16 September in the UK/Ireland. Playing two nights at Ronnie Scott’s the following week this latest album was recorded in late-2012 and opens with the classic ‘You Must Believe in Spring’, its inclusion a homage to the continuing influence Bill Evans’ eponymous version of the Bergmans/Legrand/Demy song released by Warners in the early-1980s has had on Sutton, the first time the singer has recorded the song since first discovering Evans’ version in the 90s. Paris Sessions also includes versions of ‘Body and Soul’, ‘Estate’, a very still ‘You’re Nearer’, one of the big highlights, the Rodgers and Hart song that Judy Garland covered in her famous 1961 Judy at Carnegie Hall album, and ‘Answer Me My Love’ dispassionately rendered with a gorgeous guitar introduction a feature. Tierney Sutton, above