Amy Denio (b. June 9, 1961) is a Seattle (USA)-based multi-instrumental avant-garde jazz musician and composer. She is probably best known as an accordionist and saxophone-player. Among her current musical involvements are Kultur Shock (drawing heavily on Balkan music) and the all-female Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet . She has also collaborated repeatedly with the Pat Graney Dance Company.

Her first recordings were in the early 1980s with the Entropics . Since then, she has performed with (among others) Francisco Lopez , Danny Barnes , the Tone Dogs , the aforementioned Billy Tiptons, Pale Nudes , Blowhole, the Danubians , Chris Cutler, Guy Klucevsek , Pauline Oliveros, the Relache Ensemble , Curlew, Matt Cameron, Hoppy Kamiyama , Derek Bailey, and the Shaking Ray Levis.

During the 1980s, Denio had a day job at Muzak.

External link

• Amy Denio and Spoot Music, including some recordings