Amy Denio

Amy Denio ( born June 9, 1961 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American multi-instrumentalist (alto saxophone, guitar, bass guitar, accordion) and singer in the border area between jazz and art rock Creative.

Life and work

Denio dealt first with the piano as a child, and then self-taught to learn guitar. After graduating from Kingswood School ( today's Cranbrook Kingswood School) in Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy suburb of Detroit, she studied at the Colorado College and then at the Hampshire College, where she graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in music. In north India, she studied singing with Dhanashree Pandit Rai. Between 1985 and 1999 she worked as Programming Coordinator Office in the headquarters of Yesco Foreground Music.

Denio founded the band project Tone Dogs, the grunge scene of Seattle prepared (and their debut album " Ankety Low Day" 1990 was the selection for a Grammy nomination ). In 1990 she was one of the founders of the Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet. In Europe, she has performed with Wadi Gysi and Chris Cutler on the free rock band " ( ec ) Nudes". In 1993, she played with Tom Cora Curlew. In addition, she worked with the folk cabaret with the dumplings and the resonance Stanonczi. In 2000 she founded with Pavel Fajt and Hungarian musicians The Danubians. She also wrote radio plays like Seattle sound and played with Fred Frith, Guy Klucevsek, Pauline Oliveros, Derek Bailey and Chuck D.

Lexigraphic entries

• Wolf Kampmann (ed.), Loeb Classical Jazz Encyclopedia. Stuttgart 2003; ISBN 3-15-010528-5