Kris Tiner

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Kris Tiner (born December 15, 1977 in California ) is an American jazz trumpeter and music teacher who is active on the west coast of the United States.

Live and act

Tiner earned a bachelor's degree from CSU Bakersfield and a Master of Arts in African-American improvisational music from the California Institute of the Arts . In 2002 the album Breathe In, Fade Out was released as a trio with Noah Phillips and Sara Schoenbeck . Together with woodwind player Jason Mears , bassist Ivan Johnson and drummer Paul Kikuchi he founded the collaborative Empty Cage Quartet , which released several albums between 2004 and 2012 that received critical acclaim.

Tiner worked a. a. with the duo Tin / Bag with Mike Baggetta, also with Brad Dutz , Harris Eisenstadt , Vinny Golia , Jeff Kaiser as well as in the formations Create (!) (Album Patterns , 2001) and the Industrial Jazz Group (Album Industrial Jazz A Go Go! , 2004). According to Tom Lord , he was involved in 19 recording sessions in the field of jazz between 2001 and 2010. Tiner taught music and art; He currently directs the jazz program at Bakersfield College, where he teaches jazz and American pop music. He also taught at CSU Bakersfield, Taft College and the Academy of Creative Education in Los Angeles.

Discographic notes

  • Kris Tiner / Mike Baggetta: There, Just As You Look for It (2004)
  • Tin / Bag: And Begin Again (2005), with Brian Walsh, Mike Baggetta, Harris Eisenstadt
  • Empty Cage Quartet: Hello the Damage (2005), with Jason Mears, Ivan Johnson, Paul Kikuchi
  • Empty Cage Quartet: Stratostrophic ( Clean Feed Records , 2006)
  • Empty Cage Quartet & Soletti Besnard: Take Care of Floating (2008), with Aurelien Besnard, Jason Mears, Patrice Soletti, Ivan Johnson, Paul Kikuchi
  • Tatsuya Nakatani / Kris Tiner / Jeremy Drake: Ritual Inscription (Epigraph Records, 2012)
  • In the Ground and Overhead: 14 Miniatures for Muted Trumpet (2020) solo

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Portrait at All About Jazz
  2. ↑ Various reviews
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed May 22, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Tiner, Kris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trumpeter and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 15th December 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH California