Executive Tea Set

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Saturday, April 25, 2009

Executive Tea Set came together in 2005 to explore the special textures created by pairing piano and vibraphone in the front line of a jazz band. ETS-s repertoire brings together works by the masters of the hard-bop era with an equal number of mathy yet lyrical original compositions. The performance of some new material at this event may elicit comments such as: -I know I know this song, but I just can-t quite place it-.especially as performed in a jazz setting by Executive Tea Set.- To which you may choose to add: --the finest jazz band in all the land!- Or words to that effect.

Geoff Brady - Vibraphone
Mark Siegenthaler - Piano
Brad Townsend - Bass
Michael Brenneis - Drums

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