No! for heaven's sake!! OF COURSE NOT!!! - More like the feminist antithesis ... THE Tipton Saxophone Quartet (formerly THE Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet) from Seattle, which are: AMY Denio (alto sax, clarinet, voice), JESSICA Lurie (alto sax, tenor sax, voice), SUE OLDFIELD (tenor sax, voice) & Tina Richerson (baritone sax, voice) ... on TINY LOWER CASE (2014) Receive addition, support for two quote men: ROBERT Kainar as solid bandmiglied on drums & percussion, and the Italian singer PEPPE Voltarelli as a guest with 2 songs (besides, he may in the short intro PEPPE his fellow announcements) the 12 pieces (. 50: 15min), a balanced mix of instrumental and vocal numbers (the latter prevail), offering a playful kind of jazz, in the sent many other styles are woven - folk, jazz rock / fusion, pop, funk, prog and even hip-hop & soul ... sometimes modern, sometimes tinged classic, sometimes relaxed, sometimes wild - because palette ranges from the highly emotional interpretation of the Italian folk song AMARA Terra Mia (5:33) on the lyrical melancholy FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT (4 : 17) to the hectic and rhythmically agitated KICKAMAR (6:01) ... well, the do-gooders-rap on Bronty (3:26) I personally would now really need it, but that makes a piece like the funny between jazz, klezmer & hiphop back & herhüpfende All Good Things (3:04) again more than offset ... overall a very nice & multilayered disc that might also appeal to people quite that otherwise saxophones with jazz & not so much at the hat have ...
