Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: Box (1996), by Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet

Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet: Box (1996)

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1.	Tri-Monk 03:48	buy track
2.	Crna Machka (Black Cat) 05:51	buy track
3.	Disgruntled Postal Worker 03:21	buy track
4.	In Effect 06:10	buy track
5.	Boise 03:30	buy track
6.	Vorrei Dire Due Parole 02:26	buy track
7.	Soleil 04:21	buy track
8.	All Manic (Manic Depression) 04:35	buy track
9.	Cud 03:29	buy track
10.	Likka Law 03:07	buy track
11.	Le Goo Wop 08:46	buy track
12.	Belle 02:45	buy track
13.	For My Beautiful Wife On Her Birthday 02:37	buy track

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The BTMSQ is an all-female saxophone quartet with drummer, named after the big band saxophonist Billy Tipton, a woman who lived as a man for more than fifty years. With a repertory that ranges from Eastern European funk and jazz, to New Orleans jump-groove, klezmer and punk, BTMSQ creates some of the wildest sounds ever to come out of a sax quartet.

On this, their New World debut, they strut their formidable chops on thirteen (mostly) originals, running the spectrum from funky, swinging, up-tempo romps (Likka Law, Tri Monk, Disgruntled Postal Worker, Vorrei Dire Due Parole, Soleil) through languid, mid-tempo numbers (In Effect, Boise) to the moody, reflective Crna Machka and a tenderly rendered arrangement of a Hendrix/Miles Davis hybird (All Manic). Completing this musical gumbo is a swinging rendition of a traditional Cajun tune (Belle).

"This group of women don't fool around; they're gritty, not pretty, playing hardcore jazz with an edge. They honk, funk, scream and slow dirge, and come laughingly back on a disc full of ambitious original material. This Box is a complete package." －JazzTimes

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released January 1, 1996

Amy Denio, alto sax; Barbara Marino, baritone sax; Maya Johnson, soprano and tenor sax; Jessica Lurie, alto and tenor sax; Pamela Barger, drums

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