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Sue Oatts Tucker
Before I took up singing, I was blowin' my tenor sax in jazz band and playing' a duet with Clark Terry at a jazz festival on my clarinet. "I think playing a horn has had a great influence on my singing. I've tried to approach singing from an instrumental mindset. Space is just as important as sound."
After attending college, I began a studio career producing and singing jingles and industrials with a voice-over thrown in on occasion. I spent seven years teaching music theory, vocal studio techniques and being coordinator of the ensemble dept. at MusicTech College in downtown St. Paul.
All of my CD's are available at my web site, amazon.com, cdbaby.com, tcmusic.net and at all live performances.
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Sue Tucker: Back Home
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by Michael P. Gladstone
For her third album, singer Sue Tucker wanted to try something different. Her concept was to explore a more earthy jazz vocal album in which jazz meets the gravel road" through the use of rhythm guitar instead of drums. She was also seeking less familiar tunes with great melodies and lyrics that apply to today's environment--and which haven't been overexposed on recordings. Appropriately, the album is titled Back Home.
Sue Tucker comes from a most musical family. Her ...
read moreSue Tucker: May I Come In
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by Michael P. Gladstone
Good things come in small packages! With May I Come In, Minnesota jazz singer Sue Tucker provides nine standards and two original compositions with a first class group of musicians. She harkens back to an era when girl singers, like Chris Connor or June Christy, just sang without gimmicks or artifice, melisma or multi-tracking. Also, there are no show-stopping vocal techniques or three octave range'and if you're looking for improvisational vocalese or scatting techniques, they're not here. What makes this ...
read moreSue Tucker: Meant for You
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by Dave Nathan
Sue Tucker is one of the ever growing group of jazz singers who avoid vocal histrionics having adopted an unembellished straightforward approach to delivering the tunes they sing. There's no scatting, swooping or heavy breathing associated with their performances. They rely on fresh arrangements of standard material and are absolute masters of knowing how to enhance their delivery by using sideman to their best advantage. Tucker had a head start coming from a musical family. Not a family that just ...
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by Mathew Bahl
I have to admit that, for very superficial reasons, I did not have high expectations for Sue Tucker's Meant for You. An unknown Minnesota-based singer performing standards on a CD produced, engineered, manufactured and distributed by the singer and her husband. It had the feel of a housewife's vanity project. The CD packaging is not exactly eye-catching, and I recognize that this is ridiculous, but even her name sounded boring.
However, I'm pleased to report that there is nothing boring ...
read moreJazz Musician of the Day: Sue Tucker
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JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Sue Tucker
I come from a family of known jazz musicians. My father, Jack Oatts, was one of the first jazz educators in Iowa. Music was always around... mostly jazz." My brothers, Jim and Dick Oatts... more
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Exactly Like You
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May I Come In
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The Best Thing For You
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