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Sue Orfield

Born: October 11, 1967

Sue Orfield is an award winning tenor saxophonist, composer and educator who tours internationally and has recorded on hundreds of albums. She makes her home in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin, where in addition to teaching privately and writing/arranging music, she freelances both as a side person and as a musical director.

From 2014 - 2017, Sue was the host of her own TV Show, The Sue Orfield Show, in which she featured local musicians/bands with interviews and a concert filmed in front of a live audience.

Over the years Sue has shared the stage with many musical greats, among them Bo Diddley, Bobby McFerrin, The Indigo Girls, Ann Wilson (Heart), Dizzy Gillespie, Ivan Neville, and Jo Dee Messina. She currently tours with The Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums. The Tiptons have just recorded and released (April 2021) their 14th album, Wabi Sabi.  Her most recent recordings (Shifting Paradigm Records) were done with Take That Back, a Minneapolis-based jazz quintet:  Take That Back (2022) and Splash (2024).

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.

Monika Herzig, Joe Fonda, and Ben Kono

by Jerome Wilson
February 12, 2025

This show features music from Monika Herzig, Terri Lyne Carrington, Joe Fonda, McCoy Tyner, and Ben Kono. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Jonathan Powell “Inner Urge" from Mambo Jazz Party (Circle 9) 00:52 Anthony ...

Atari Afternoon

By Joan Hutton

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Atari Afternoon

Splash

By Joan Hutton

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Splash; Atari Afternoon; Playhouse Bats; Lake Rosseau 1980; Wakanda Park; #sixfeet; City Lights and Fireflies; Unwitting Man About Town; For Anita; Popcorn; Moon River.

Playhouse Bats

October 29, 2024

Album: Splash
By Joan Hutton
Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 05:10

Yuhan Su, Marta Sanchez, and Jason Robinson

by Jerome Wilson
August 28, 2024

This episode has new sounds from Yuhan Su. Marta Sanchez, and Jason Robinson among others as well as older music from Tadd Dameron, Al Hibbler, and Jerry Granelli. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Yuhan ...

Joan Hutton / Sue Orfield: Splash

by Jerome Wilson
August 14, 2024

Alto saxophonist Joan Hutton and tenor saxophonist Sue Orfield co-lead a quintet out of the US Midwest called Take That Back. The band's distinctive sound rises out of the rich dialogue between their two leaders. They flow, stomp and roll through a program of mostly original music with high spirits and style. “Splash" and ...

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