Crispin Cioe

Crispin Cioe is a NY-based saxophonist/composer/music director. As a musician, he has toured and recorded with the Rolling Stones (Steel Wheels Tour/IMAX film/"Flashpoint" LP, James Brown (sax solo on "Living in America"), Robert Palmer, Joe Cocker ("Unchain My Heart"), Tom Waits ("Rain Dogs"), Peter Allen, Buster Poindexter ("Hot Hot Hot"), Chic, and scores of other top artists, including recent session work on saxophone for Coldplay and Scissors Sisters. Crispin is also the founder and leader of his own band, Cracked Ice, which is active in the NYC area. Additionally, Crispin is a co-founding member of the Uptown Horns.

Crispin has composed and/or arranged music for several independent films, including "Burnzy's Last Call", "The Real Blonde", and "Five Wives, Three Secretaries, and Me".

He was Music Director of the Charles Mee play "True Love", for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination in 2002. Other theater credits include being music director of the Actors Studio Clifford Odets Festival performance of Odets' "Night Music", directed by Michael Howard, and performance in "Love, Janis" off-Broadway.