Tina Marsh
| Tina Marsh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 18, 1954 Annapolis, Maryland, US |
| Origin | Austin, Texas, US |
| Died | June 16, 2009 (aged 55) Austin, Texas |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | singer, bandleader, composer |
| Instruments | singing, scat singing, extended techniques |
| Years active | 1979–2009 |
| Labels | CreOp Muse |
| Associated acts | Creative Opportunity Orchestra (CO2) |
| Website | CreOp.org at the Wayback Machine (archive index) |
Tina Marsh (January 18, 1954, - June 16, 2009) was a jazz vocalist and composer based in Austin, Texas. Marsh was the creative director of the Creative Opportunity Orchestra (or CO2), a large jazz ensemble which she founded in 1980. In 2000, the Austin Chronicle inducted Marsh into its Texas Music Hall of Fame. In 2008, the Austin Critics Table inducted Marsh into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame. C. Michael Bailey of All About Jazz has described Marsh's music as "progressive big band, a kind of marriage between the avant-garde and postmodern classical. Marsh, like [Carla] Bley, favors low brass in assembly and solos. She uses her voice in a creative Meredith Monk sort of way that is not unattractive."
Marsh was born in Annapolis, Maryland. During the late-1970s, Marsh worked as an actor in musical theatre in and around New York City and Philadelphia. While living in New York, she began forming ideas about jazz singing. After moving to Austin, Marsh attended concerts by Anthony Braxton and Sam Rivers at Armadillo World Headquarters. These performances inspired her to form her first professional group, New Visions Ensemble, with Alex Coke, Rock Savage, Booka Michel and Horatio Rodriguez.
In 1980, at the suggestion of Charlie Haden, Marsh studied at the Creative Music Studio in . Upon returning to Austin, she formed the Creative Opportunity Orchestra with the members of New Visions Ensemble at its core. CO2 began as a cooperative organization, similar to the AACM, though Marsh gradually assumed a managerial role and became the group's director.
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