Alex Coke, based in Austin, plays flutes and saxophones. An original member of Creative Opportunity Orchestra, has been featured as composer/arranger and soloist on  several CO2 recordings since the early 1980s. From 1990-2000 he toured and recorded with the internationally renowned Dutch jazz group, the Willem Breuker Kollektief. An improvisor and experimentalist with a wide range of interests from avant-garde and bebop jazz to folk and world traditional musics, Alex has led and recorded with numerous ensembles like Live Action Brass Band, the Leadbelly Legacy Band, New Texas Swing, and The Worthy Constituents, as well as offshoots from his involvement in the Dutch jazz and contemporary music scene.

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Tina Marsh is Artistic Director of Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Austin's pioneering large group avant-garde jazz and improvisational music organization. With innovative compositions, laced with free-form inventions and her unique vocalizations, Marsh's CO2 projects have, since 1980, involved more than 200 local and international musicians, including guest artists such as Roscoe
Mitchell, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Billy Hart, and Kenny Wheeler. Tina is featured on CO2 CDs and her own releases, also on CreOp Muse.

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Among recent projects, Tina and Alex can be heard together in a quartet setting on New Texas Swing (CreOp Muse, 2002), and with CO2 on Iraqnophobia/Wake Up Dead Man (VoxLox, 2005).

The duos and trios of It's Possible reunites Alex and Tina with Steve Feld, who performed and recorded with them in Austin in the late 1980s in Leadbelly Legacy Band and Live Action Brass Band. In recent years Steve's research has taken him to Ghana, where he learned the ashiwa rhythm box bass and toured and recorded with Accra Trane Station. When Accra Trane Station came to New Mexico in 2007 Alex joined them in concert and for the recording of Topographies of the Dark (VoxLox, 2008).