TIPTON, BILLY
Display ad, Billy Tipton Trio at Seattle's SaddleHorn Room in The Westerner nightclub (at 5th Avenue & Pike Street), November 1957, The Seattle Times.
Homebase: Spokane, WA.
Stats: (1914-1989)
"BILLY TIPTON: SPOKANE'S SECRETIVE JAZZ MAN"
by Peter Blecha [Courtesy & copyright, 2005, HistoryLink.org]
The otherwise low-key life story of Billy Tipton -- an obscure jazz pianist who worked out of Spokane, Washington, for 40 years – took a startling plot twist upon his death on January 21, 1989. A few days later, the director of the Ball & Dodd Funeral Home informed his stunned wife and children that the deceased musician had actually been a woman. The discovery that Tipton had successfully masqueraded as a man for more than 50 years was initially a local “human interest” news item, but one with enough lurid mystery that it subsequently sparked international headlines, TV news coverage, magazine essays, a biography, and countless academic and bar-room gender identity debates. [...READ MORE HERE...]
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RECORDING PERSONNEL: Billy Tipton (piano); [?] (Rhythm Accompaniment).
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SIZE: 7"
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A-SIDE COMPOSER: Casey - Bernie - Pinkard
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B-SIDE COMPOSER: Cole Porter
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