Album Notes

Julie Wolf is a multi-instrumentalist and singer who, besides making music of her own, has established herself as a sensitive, eclectic, collaborative, first-call side player. She has performed and/or recorded with luminaries in the jazz, folk, funk and rock/pop worlds, including Ani DiFranco (4 1/2 years as DiFranco's keyboardist), Maceo Parker, Bruce Cockburn (Julie is currently on tour with Cockburn), Dar Williams, Catie Curtis, Kris Delmhorst, Laura Love,jazz singer Rhiannon, and many others. She's brought her memorably simple, pure musicality to stages across the world, as well as to a growing number of critically acclaimed recordings. Preceding the globe trotting touring and recording that has kept her busy for the last decade, Wolf had a seasoned jazz life, having been part of Seattle's jazz community since the mid 1980's . There, she collaborated with Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, Bill Frisell, Ralph Towner, Julian Priester, Jay Clayton, Jerry Grannelli and others. Her live gigs and recording dates have taken her all over North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.


On Walk the Worn Out Floor, Wolf is stepping forward with something very spare, compelling and intimate. With songs ranging from jazz standards, to originals by Wolf and other Seattle jazz musicians, to blues and a few singer songwriter tunes, Julie brings the simple beauty of her piano playing and singing to the foreground. She is joined by some friends here and there, who truly compliment the intimacy that Wolf creates on her own in the opening tracks. (Hans Teuber on saxophone and f lute, Jami Sieber on electric cello and vocals, her twin sister Kate on vocals, and Laura Love on vocals.) Check out Julie Wolf's Walk the Worn Out Floor, and find a beautifully different side of this versatile musician