{{Short description|American jazz vocalist and composer}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Tina Marsh | image = | background = solo_singer | birth_name = Kristin Conway Marsh | birth_date = {{Birth date|1954|1|18}} | birth_place =Annapolis, Maryland, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2009|06|16|1954|01|18|mf=yes}} | death_place = Austin, Texas, U.S. | genre = Jazz | occupation = Singer | years_active = 1979–2009 | label = CreOp Muse | past_member_of = Creative Opportunity Orchestra }}
'''Tina Marsh''' (January 18, 1954,<ref name=amdb>{{cite web | first=Josh | last=Rosenblatt | url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/AMDB/Profile?oid=oid:115353 |title=Tina Marsh |access-date=11 May 2020 |work=Austin Music Database |publisher=Austin Chronicle Corp. | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525003012/http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/AMDB/Profile?oid=oid:115353 | archive-date=25 May 2011 }}</ref> – June 16, 2009)<ref name="aas2009-06-17">{{cite news |last1=Buchholz |first1=Brad |title=Creativity poured out of her like the scent of honeysuckle |work=Austin American-Statesman |date=June 17, 2009}}</ref> was a jazz vocalist and composer based in Austin, Texas. She was the creative director of the Creative Opportunity Orchestra, a large jazz ensemble which she founded in 1980.<ref name="co2about">{{cite web|url=http://www.creop.org/about.html |title=About |access-date=15 June 2010 |work=Tina Marsh & the Creative Opportunity Orchestra |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505000505/http://www.creop.org/about.html | archive-date=2008-05-05 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="cadencevol31no12">{{cite magazine|last=Van Trikt |first=Ludwig |date=December 2005 |title=Tina Marsh interview, January 31, 2005, Austin, TX |magazine=Cadence Magazine | volume=31 | issue=12 | pages =12–19 | publisher=Cadnor | location=Redwood, New York | issn=0162-6973 }}</ref>
==Early life and career== Marsh was born in Annapolis, Maryland.<ref name=aas2009-06-17 /> During the late-1970s, she worked as an actor in musical theatre in and around New York City and Philadelphia.<ref name="cadencevol31no12" /> 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.<ref name="cadencevol31no12" /> These performances inspired her to form her first professional group, New Visions Ensemble, with Alex Coke, Rock Savage, Booka Michel, and Horatio Rodriguez.<ref name="cadencevol31no12" />
In 1980, at the suggestion of Charlie Haden, Marsh studied at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New York.<ref name="cadencevol31no12" /> Upon returning to Austin, she formed the Creative Opportunity Orchestra with the members of New Visions Ensemble at its core.<ref name="cadencevol31no12" /> {{CO2}} began as a cooperative organization, similar to the AACM, though Marsh gradually assumed a managerial role and became the group's director.<ref name="cadencevol31no12" />
Marsh went on to perform with Carla Bley, Hamiett Bluiett, Vinny Golia, Dennis González, Billy Hart, Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Swallow, and Kenny Wheeler.<ref name="co2about" /><ref name="cadencevol31no12" /> Marsh and the ensemble performed at the Laguna Gloria amphitheater in Austin.<ref name="cadencevol31no12" /> She was a participant in the Austin Jazz Workshop.
In 1994, Marsh was diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer.<ref name="hernandez">{{cite news|first=Raoul |last=Hernandez |title={{CO2}}'s Tina Marsh: The Perils of Jazz |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol14/issue40/jazz.marsh.40.html |work=Austin Chronicle |publisher=Austin Chronicle Corp. |location=Austin, TX|date =June 8, 1995 | access-date=May 15, 2008}}</ref> In February 2008, she learned that the cancer had returned and metastasized, though she continued to record and perform later in the year.<ref name=amdb /><ref name="Powell">{{cite web |last1=Powell |first1=Austin |title=Off the Record |url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2008-02-01/586587/ |website=Austin Chronicle |access-date=30 August 2018 |date=1 February 2008}}</ref> Marsh died on June 16, 2009.<ref name=aas2009-06-17 /> She continued to perform up to two months before her death.<ref name="aas2009-09-05">{{cite news |first=Buchholz |last=Brad |title=Once more, for Tina |url=http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/2009/09/0905jazz.html | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229122144/http://www.austin360.com/music/content/music/stories/2009/09/0905jazz.html | archive-date=29 February 2012 | newspaper=Austin American-Statesman |location=Austin, TX |date=5 September 2009 |access-date=23 September 2009 }}</ref>
==Awards and honors== In 2000, the ''Austin Chronicle'' inducted Marsh into its Texas Music Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.creop.org/tinamarsh.html |title=Bios |access-date=February 27, 2008 |work= Tina Marsh & the Creative Opportunity Orchestra |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100112033926/http://www.creop.org/tinamarsh.html |archive-date=2010-01-12 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Awards/MusicPollHallOfFame|title=Austin Chronicle Music Poll Hall of Fame inductees|access-date=February 27, 2008 |work=Austin Chronicle }}</ref> In 2008, the Austin Critics Table inducted Marsh into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite news|first= Robert|last = Faires |title = Austin Arts Hall of Fame: Class of 2008 |url = http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:616088 |website= Austin Chronicle|location = Austin, Texas|date =April 25, 2008| access-date =August 19, 2008 }}</ref>
The Austin History Center maintains a collection of Marsh's papers.<ref name="TARO FA">{{cite web | title=Tina Marsh Papers: An Inventory of the Collection|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/aushc/00203/ahc-00203.html | publisher=Texas Archival Resources Online | access-date=2 January 2013 }}</ref>
C. Michael Bailey of ''All About Jazz'' described Marsh's music as "progressive big band, a kind of marriage between the avant-garde and postmodern classical. Marsh, like [[Carla Bley|[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."<ref name="Bailey">{{cite web |last1=Bailey |first1=C. Michael |title=Tina Marsh and the Creative Opportunity Orchestra ({{CO2}}): The Heaven Line/World Wide |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/the-heaven-line-world-wide-tina-marsh-creop-records-review-by-c-michael-bailey.php |website=All About Jazz |access-date=30 August 2018 |date=1 June 2000}}</ref>
== Discography == ===As leader=== * ''The Heaven Line'', with the Creative Opportunity Orchestra (CreOp Muse, 1994)<ref name="heaven-line">{{AllMusic | class=album | id=the-heaven-line-mw0000430548/credits | title=The Heaven Line - Credits}}</ref> * ''World Wide'' (CreOp Muse, 1998)
'''With Alex Coke''' * ''Iraqnophobia'' (VoxLox, 2005)<ref>{{AllMusic | class=album | id=iraqnophobia-mw0000260183/credits| title=Iraqnophobia - Credits}}</ref> * ''It's Possible'' (VoxLox, 2008)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=tina-marsh-mn0000597270|label=Tina Marsh}}
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