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JESSICA LURIE (alto & tenor sax, voice) is composer, collaborator, and instrumentalist from Seattle and now based in Brooklyn, NY. She performs, composes and arranges for The Jessica Lurie Ensemble (JLE), The Tiptons Sax Quartet, The Living Daylights Trio, Latin funk group La Buya, and the Andrew Drury/Jessica Lurie Duo. She has collaborated in a wide range of musical styles with international artists such as Bill Frisell, The Indigo Girls, Jenny Scheinman, Mike Clark, Sleater Kinney, Amy Denio, NYC's Circus Amok, Nels Cline, Les Claypool, James Blood Ulmer, Jerry Joseph, The Jacob Fred Jazz Odessy, The Pat Grainey Dance Company, James Blood Ulmer, Eyvind Kang, Giannia Gebbia, Ellen Fullman, Wayne Horvitz, Kenny Wollesson, Allison Miller, Great Small Works (NYC), the Berkeley Symphony, DJ Logic, Steven Berstein, and visual artist Danijel Zezelj. She started her own music label Zipa!Music in 2000 and is part of over 30 releases as a bandleader and collaborator. Amy Denio (alto sax) is a composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (voice, accordion, saxophone, clarinet, bass, guitar) and veteran home taper based in Seattle, WA. She started her label Spoot Music in 1986, with the release of her first cassette release, No Bones. Since then, she's recorded & released other cassettes, LPs, and 28 CDs created solo and with an array of international musicians. She has performed her music at festivals throughout Europe and North America, and in South America, Japan, Hong Kong and Bombay, touring solo and with various groups and musicians such as Francisco Lopez, Danny Barnes, Tone Dogs, Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, Pale Nudes, Danubians, Chris Cutler, Guy Klucevsek, Pauline Oliveros, Relache Ensemble, Curlew, Matt Cameron, Hoppy Kamiyama, and others. Her projects have received grants from NEA, Meet The Composer, Pew Charitable Trust, Arts Link, Artist Trust, Arts International, Seattle Arts Commission, King County Arts Commission, and the Washington State Arts Commission. She has been commissioned to compose for Italian National Radio, David Dorfman Dance Company, Relache Ensemble, Berkeley Symphony, The New York Festival of Song, Die Knodel, Pat Graney Dance Company, UMO Ensemble, Yoko Murao, Victoria Marks, and others. Tina Richerson (baritone and tenor sax) is native to Wenatchee Washington. Tina attended the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho and attained her Master of Music from the University of Washington. Tina made her first notable appearance in Seattle as the first female to perform and record with the Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra in 1999. After completing her course work for her graduate degree she began studying privately with Cynthia Mullis. Tina escaped to Alaska where she could woodshed in the Arctic, free of outside influence or distraction. After returning to Seattle, she appeared with the Jazz Police, and the jazz trio Love Must Swing. Tina has also performed with Claudio Roditti, Don Lanphere, Mark Bullis, Frank Grace, the Jim Cutler Jazz Orchestra, and the rock band Sons of Nothing. Sue Orfield has been playing the tenor saxophone for close to 30 years. She currently lives in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and freelances there in the blues, jazz, rock, and original music scene. She moved to Eau Claire in 2004 from Seattle, Washington, where she was voted "best horn" by the Washington Blues Society in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. Sue fronts her own group called The Sue Orfield Band (SOB) which features much of her original material. Sue has shared the stage with some musical greats over the years, a few of them being Jo Dee Messina, the Indigo Girls, Bo Diddley, Ann Wilson of Heart, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Bobby McFerrin. Sue's artistry, individuality, and powerful presence on stage make her one of the midwest's favorite saxophone players. FAITH STANKEVICH (drums) has been performing on stages for 30 years. She was born in New York to musician parents and went on the road immediately. Since moving to Seattle in 1996, she has toured the region extensively and shared the stage with the likes of Fishbone and Woody Harrelson, and has played with John Popper of Blues Traveller, and Bobby Bandiera of Bon Jovi. She has backed up such singer/songwriters as Felicia Loud, Adrian Xavier and Yva Las Vegass, played and toured with Indie rock band San Pedro Circus, riot grrl punk act Megababe as a rhythm guitar player, had her own jazz/hip hop trio the Faith Stankevich Big Band, and then joined Stingshark (formerly Phat Sidy Smokehouse). In this band she got to play with so many of the regions finest players such as bass great Bob Lovelace, hype man and local celeb Larry "El" Steiner, Mike Birembaum (easy big fella), Bill Jones (Mudsharks, and Clinton Fearon), and Brian "Stingshark" Ray. She started Stankevicius, an improv weekly using some similar players as well as PK (RTC) and Jason Cameron (Carmen Elektra, Motown, Paisley Park recording artist). She has appeared on many TV and cable spots throughout her career and in addition to drum lessons, has also taught art classes and tap dancing. | ||||||||
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