Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra
About This Event
The cheekily named Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra is a quartet that has been playing a singular brand of jazz/folk/alternative nosh with a chewy singer-songwriter center for almost two decades. With melancholy wit and a cockeyed worldview, Lipton and bandmates Eben Levy (guitar), Ian Riggs (bass), and Vito Dieterle (sax) deliver original songs steeped in mixed-message sincerity and soul.
“Twisted, dark, sophisticated, schleppy and sad all at once.” –NPR’s Weekend Edition
“The hepcat stylings of Ethan Lipton and his jazz combo give Lipton’s meticulously funny, often wise “We Are Your Robots” … a delightful throwback air.” – The New Yorker
“Sly, smart as heck, and somehow both extremely tender and laugh-out-loud funny, Lipton…took us all the way to the edge of the abyss, then offered a gentle hand to bring us back again…Both the band’s charming tunes and Lipton’s clever lyrics conjured up a little Tom Waits here, a little The Might Be Giants there…and Randy Newman over there.” — New York Magazine