Suse Millimon Band, at the Wild Rose Tavern, Seattle, WA, November 29, 1992
This poster advertises a jazz night with the Suse Millimon Band, Julie Wolf, Randy Clere, and Steve Jones at the Wildrose, Seattle’s lesbian bar, in November 1992. The Suse Millimon Band was a Jazz group who performed in the Seattle area in the early 1990s. The band performed at the Northwest Folklife Festival, Re-Bar, and the Crocodile Café. They also performed with the all-women Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, among others.
Julie Wolf (b. unknown) is a pianist, accordion player, and vocalist. She has performed internationally and has collaborated with Carly Simon, the Indigo Girls, Ani DiFranco, and Maceo Parker, among others. In 1988, she performed Duke Ellington’s “Stepping In” at the Fifth Annual Festival of Gay and Lesbian Performance at Theater Off Jackson in Seattle. Since moving to Oakland, California, Wolf has been a musical director with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and California Shakespeare Theater. She also teaches music clinics and runs Sonic Wolf Productions, a music house specializing in composing for film and moving images, sound design, music editing, and record producing.
Randy Clere (b. unknown) is an electric bassist and acupuncturist in Seattle. He also plays the Chapman Stick, and has played with Taj Mahal, Sam Weis, Scott Cossu, and others.
Steve Jones (b. unknown) is a jazz pianist living in Bothell, Washington. He was raised in Spokane, where his parents were principal bassoon and clarinet in the Spokane Symphony for four decades. His mom, Virginia Jones, was also a tenor saxophonist with the Spokane Jazz society’s big band, which brought big names like Dizzy Gillespie and Ernestine Anderson to Eastern Washington. Jones began as a classical bassoonist and played saxophone in college before finding jazz piano after meeting Seattle pianist Dave Peck. He also started Seattle Area Jazz Musicians, a group of over 700 amateur jazz musicians to connect and play together.
