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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
07:00 PM
Beyond Jazz with The Tiptons Sax Quartet and Drums
with local trio, Pocketful of Claptonite
Curator: Leslie Grove
| Co-Curator: Justin Kau
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| Tiptons Sax Quartet and Drums |
Pocketful of Claptonite, photo by Delene Porter |
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$10.00 Suggested donation (but no one turned away for lack of funds.)
We are honored to be presenting The Tiptons - a Seatle-based,
all-woman sax quartet who have performed in Europe and
the US for more than 15 years! They boldly expand the
tradition of saxophone quartets with music that ranges from the
New Orleans second line through Jazz to Afro-Cuban, Balkan,
Klezmer and beyond. The quartet is widely praised for dynamic,
playful concerts with high-energy interaction and a broad
repertoire.
Founded in 1988, the group was named in honor of pianist and
saxophonist Billy Tipton, following the post-mortem revelation
that Tipton was in fact a woman who had begun dressing as a man
to play with jazz groups in 1930's Oklahoma and continued to
live as a man for more than 50 years.
Directing music workshops in the US and throughout Europe, the
Tiptons teach group composition and improvisation, saxophone
and extended vocal techniques. They have also received
grants to compose music for "saxophone quartet and 3 city
buses" and to research and perform compositions by women
composers in jazz. Music from the Tiptons' newest CD,
Laws of Motion has been featured on National Public Radio and
Austrian National Radio.
For more information and samples of the quartet's
recordings: and wiki page, and myspace
Athens trio Pocketful of Claptonite will open the evening--an exciting
improv trio of Athens-based musicians, all active in a range of
genres. Killick, known in avant garde circles for his mastery of unique
stringed instruments such as the custom-built, microtonal h'arpeggione,
plays a more conventional electric guitar in this group, though in his own
characteristic, energetic style. Cousins and frequent collaborators in
jazz ensembles such as Breathlanes, upright bassist Darrin Cook
and drummer Jamie DeRevere provide a rhythm section that powers
the trio into a "wide open stream of consciousness."
For more information and samples of the trio's
recordings: Sweet Pea Review, WUOG, and myspace.
People may view the current ATHICA exhibit, Nurture: Video and Photography by Amy
Jenkins before the music event from 1:00 p.m. on that
day. The exhibit marks three firsts for ATHICA: it is our first
focusing on the personal yet universal issues of parenting and
breast-feeding, our first large-scale video-art exhibit, and
our first full-run solo artist exhibition. The works, curated
by ATHICA Artistic Director Lizzie Zucker Saltz, are from
Jenkins' stunning Cradle series, in which the artist
films herself and members of her family in order to reveal
salient aspects of familial relationships. This is
Jenkins' first solo exhibition south of Kentucky, which follows
two decades of the New Hampshire-based artist's exhibiting at
numerous national and international museums and
galleries.
Thank You to:
Participating Artists
Tiptons:
Founding member Amy Denio
Saxophonists Jessica Lurie, Sue Orfield and Tina Richerson
Drummer Lee Frisari
Pocketful of
Claptonite:
Killick, electric guitar
Darrin
Cook upright bass
Jamie DeRevere, drums
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