Sue Orfield & Joan Hutton: Take That Back

Original Jazz

Take That Back started as the meeting-of-the-minds of two veteran musicians, Joan Hutton and Sue Orfield. Drawn together by a passion for original music, both bandleaders are composers and improvisers, each with her own unique musical voice.

Sue Orfield tenor sax

Joan Hutton alto sax & bass clarinet

Ted Godbout keys

Kameron Markworth basses

David Schmalenberger drums

Sue Orfield is an award-winning tenor saxophonist, educator and composer. She has recorded on hundreds of albums and has toured the U.S. consistently since 1992, and also regularly tours internationally with The Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums. She fronts her own band (The Sue Orfield Band) and was for years the host of her own TV show, The Sue Orfield Show. She makes her home in the Chippewa Valley of Wisconsin.

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. Joan Hutton is also an accomplished classical artist and is a member of the acclaimed ANCIA Saxophone Quartet. As a dedicated educator, Joan teaches a large studio of private clarinet and saxophone students around the Twin Cities and is the saxophone instructor at Augsburg University.

“Joyfully documenting two writers and players deserving much wider recognition, Take That Back is the witty rejoinder to those cynical among us who think all the fun has gone out of jazz. Take that back, indeed!” – Douglas Payne, Sound Insights

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