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. Joan Hutton plays bass clarinet and alto sax and Sue Orfield plays the tenor sax. They joined creative forces with an incredible rhythm section of some of the Twin Cities’ top players–Ted Godbout (piano), Kameron Markworth (bass), and David Schmalenberger (drums)–and together they have released two albums of original music on Shifting Paradigm Records: Take That Back (2022) and Splash (2024).
