Barbara Sutton Curtis

Barbara Sutton Curtis (September 16, 1930 – October 30, 2019) was an American jazz pianist.

[2] Her older brother Ralph Sutton was also a jazz pianist in the Harlem stride piano style,[3] and with his help she started performing in her teens.

A reviewer praised her "solid left hand" on her 1997 solo album Old Fashioned Love (recorded in Canada in 1987 and 1993).

[1][12] Barbara Sutton married drummer and schoolteacher Harold "Hal" Curtis in 1952.

Unpublished recordings of her concerts were donated to the Mendocino County Historical Society.