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Jessica Lurie

Seattle and Brooklyn-based Jessica Lurie is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser, performing on saxophones, flute, voice, accordion and electronics. Influenced by her parent’s love of classical, jazz, broadway and Americana, combined with having come up in the diverse Seattle music scene of the ‘90s on, she calls on a wide range of musical influences, including, funk, jazz, Americana, gospel, Klezmer, Balkan, Latin, and Afro-Cuban music, as well as a great love for free improvisation. Jessica will be releasing her newest recording “LONG HAUL” in summer 2017, featuring Jessica on saxophones and flutes, Todd Sickafoose on bass, Allison Miller on drums, Mike Gamble on guitar, Brian Marsalla on piano and special guest Naomi Seigel on trombone. She has received critical acclaim from Downbeat, Emusic, Jazz Times, All About Jazz and more

Live In Portland

By Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums

Label: Sowiesound Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Intro; 3 x Heather's 17; December's Dance; Lachin; Banter; Working Song; Memory Bait; Raisa; Root Dance; Sparkley Con; Twelve Days

Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums

The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums's 15th album “Live in Portland” is out now on Sowiesound Records, Austria for streaming, and on CD and LP! This high-voltage album captures this intrepid all-women sax quartet’s energy, playful interplay and exceptional musicianship experienced during their sold-out concert at Jack London Revue in Portland, Oregon in March 2025. Horn lines surge and interlock, grooves snap into focus, and their potent improvisations unfold with grace.  This ten-song album distills the band’s signature “world soul” sound, a genre-fluid blend of jazz, funk, folk traditions, Balkan and Middle Eastern influences, and rhythm-forward chamber music. Live In Portland represents the Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums doing what they do best: transforming an empty room into a beautiful haven of community when they play.

Seattle Jazz Fellowship: A New Age In A New Space

by Paul Rauch
February 19, 2025

The Seattle Jazz Fellowship, a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting jazz and jazz culture primarily at the local level, came to life in a backroom bar in the city's arts district on Capitol Hill in October 2021. The city, the nation, the world, was just beginning to fully climb out of the social slumber imposed by the COVID-19 ...

Medietas

By Brian Marsella

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2024
Track listing: Time Floats Away; Time Travelers Overture; Astral Atrocities Exorcised, Plum Sauce, and ... Oh No!; The Hardest Truth; 1; Rise Up; Neighborhood Stroll.

Mujer o Bruja

By Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums

Label: Spoot Music, Zipa Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Earth / Rock Arc; Water; Air; Fire / Hurrian Hymn; But Then ...; Conquest / Mayhem; Border Stories / Radio Los Ninos; Herida Abierta de la Frontera; Cabaret de las Brujas / MC Introduction; La Bruja; Irony Boards Brujaha; Still Hurrian; Leydy Pech / Pollinate the Evolution; Remedios / Butterfly Becoming; Untrapt

The Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums

Born: June 9, 1988

THE TIPTONS SAXOPHONE QUARTET & DRUMS are an internationally renowned all-female saxophone quartet with drums, celebrating over 30 years as a band. Formed in 1988 in Seattle, WA by Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame member Amy Denio (alto sax, clarinet, voice), she is joined by co-leader Jessica Lurie (soprano/alto/ tenor sax,voice), Sue Orfield (tenor sax, voice), Tina Richerson (baritone saxophone, voice), and Robert Kainar (drums,percussion) from Salzburg, Austria.

The Tiptons' material ranges from micro-Big Band to Gospel, Bluegrass to Balkan, whimsical Chamber Jazz, and nocturnal Funk to Free Jazz Improvisation using saxophones, clarinet, their voices, drums, and inventive percussion to create a genre-busting ‘world soul’ sound. The band takes its name in honor of Billy Tipton, a female-born saxophonist who lived their life as a man in the 20th century to realize their dreams as a professional musician. Like Billy, the Tiptons have developed a personal, eclectic approach to their musical vision, creating some of the freshest sounds on the jazz/world/pop music scene today.

2022: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
December 29, 2022

Current events impacted the jazz world in significant ways throughout 2022. In its third year, the coronavirus pandemic continued to lurk in some settings, while others recovered in robust fashion. Russia's war on Ukraine was felt by musicians and triggered an outpouring of support for its victims. Initiatives to ensure greater equity in jazz advanced. The ...

Wabi Sabi

By Tiptons Saxophone Quartet & Drums

Label: Sowiesound Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: December's Dance; El Gran Orinador; Wabi Sabi; A Sparkley Con; Root Dance; Torqueing of the Spheres; Jouissance; Memory Bait; Moadl Joadl; 3 x Heather's 17; Working Song; 4+7=47

Allison Miller: Driving the Balance

by John Pietaro
December 22, 2020

Allison Miller sits at the vintage Camco drumkit in her Brooklyn home, playing post-bop over a rolling samba. Within the shimmer of an age-darkened cymbal, she switches from sticks to brushes, filling the room with the shush of summer rain, then a sudden hailstorm as her arms, aerial, traverse snare, tom-toms and cymbals in a blurring, ...