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| Born | December 29, 1914 |
| Hometown | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States |
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‘Framing Agnes’ Review: Trans Artists and Academics Bring History into the Present
- Director Chase Joynt (“No Ordinary Man”) uses vintage gender-study interviews as a prism through which to view modern transgender lives
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'No Ordinary Man' an inspiring, reflective documentary about Spokane's Billy Tipton
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The Celebrated Jazz Musician Who Was Secretly Trans
OscilloscopeBilly Tipton was what someone in No Ordinary Man respectfully refers to a “regional jazz musician.” In the mid-1930s, he fronted a band that performed on radio stations and at Elks Lodges, Air Force bases and in nightclubs, first in his native Oklahoma City and then throughout various parts of the country. He was a successful working artist, and with The Billy Tipton Trio, he recorded two jazz-standard albums and, shortly thereafter, was offered a spot playing in Reno, Nevada, as the
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Oscilloscope Laboratories Acquires Billy Tipton Docu ‘No Ordinary Man’ And French-Canadian Drama ‘Les Nôtres’
EXCLUSIVE: Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. rights to the genre-bending look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton in the documentary No Ordinary Man directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt. The film production and distribution company founded by the late, great Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys also acquired the U.S. rights to Jeanne […]
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‘No Ordinary Man’ Review: Riveting Dive Into the Past Heralds the Future of Trans Cinema
TIFF: A fascinating meta portrait of pianist Billy Tipton, a transgender man who died in 1989, as told by trans masculine actors and thinkers.
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Radiant Boards U.S. & Int’l Sales Rights To Toronto Pic ‘No Ordinary Man’ About Trans Icon Billy Tipton
EXCLUSIVE: Mimi Steinbauer's Los Angeles-based outfit Radiant Films has boarded U.S. and international sales rights to Toronto Film Festival documentary No Ordinary Man, about jazz musician and trans icon Billy Tipton. The film, co-directed by Aisling Chin-Yee (The Rest of Us) and Chase Joynt (Framing Agnes), charts the life of American musician Tipton whose story, […]
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Death Discloses Billy Tipton's Strange Secret: He Was a She
To his fans in Spokane, Wash., Billy Tipton was a jazzman extraordinaire, a gifted pianist and saxophonist who had played with such luminaries as Jack Teagarden and Russ Carlyle before forming his own popular trio in the 1950s. “A perfect gentleman” is how Dave Sobol, his longtime friend and agent remembers him. The revelation left Tipton’s children both bereaved and, to put it mildly, bewildered.
