Results for "Joan Hutton"

Musician

Joan Hutton

Born: May 18, 1969

Joan Hutton is a woodwind performer, composer and music educator residing in Minneapolis and hailing from Toronto, Canada. Her varied musical interests have led her over the years to classical, jazz, funk, free improvisation, pit orchestras and more. She is a long time member of the Ancia Saxophone Quartet, with recordings on the Naxos and Albany labels. In 2022 she released her first jazz album as a leader, along with saxophonist Sue Orfield, on Shifting Paradigm Records. Their second album is due for release in July 2024. Joan is the saxophone instructor at Augsburg University and has a large private studio of clarinet and saxophone students. 

Album

Take That Back

By Joan Hutton

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Dirty Secret; That it would not hurt you; My Six; Memory Bait; Hope For The Girl; Dodged It; Heading North; Steezy; OH!; Curtains.

Song of the Day

Dodged It

March 3, 2022

Album: Take That Back
By Joan Hutton
Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 6:26

Song of the Day

Dirty Secret

February 6, 2022

Album: Take That Back
By Joan Hutton
Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:54

Video

Hope for the Girl

Featuring the music of Joan Hutton
Duration: 5:19
February 2, 2022

Studio recording of "Hope for the Girl", from the debut album by Joan Hutton & Sue Orfield's Take That Back was released on Shifting Paradigm Records and features original music by the two reed players and draws on its leaders’ mutual joy in pursuing unpredictable musical adventures. Joan Hutton (bass clarinet), Sue Orfield (tenor saxophone), Ted Godbout (piano), Kameron Markworth (bass), and David Schmalenberger (drums).

Article: Album Review

Joan Hutton & Sue Orfield: Take That Back

by Dan McClenaghan
January 27, 2022

Joan Hutton and Sue Orfield's Take that Back opens with the smooth dark chocolate crooning of Hutton's bass clarinet. The tune is “Dirty Secret," a Hutton-penned, mid-tempo gem. And initially what comes to mind is (Bennie Maupin and Eric Dolphy aside) how rarely we hear the bass clarinet on a jazz album. Then Orfield's tenor sax ...