Tim Armacost

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Tim Armacost with organist Jon Hammond (2008)

Tim Armacost (born December 8, 1962 ) is an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , soprano saxophone , composition ) who dedicates himself to "maintaining the tradition of tonally bound improvisation".

Live and act

Armacost grew up in Tokyo and Washington DC; At the age of eight he first learned the clarinet , before he switched to the tenor saxophone during his time in Washington at the age of 16 and played in big bands . When he was 18, he moved to Los Angeles, where he performed with Bobby Bradford and Charlie Shoemake . After graduating (“ magna cum laude ”) from Ponoma College, he moved to Amsterdam and worked from there for seven years in Europe, where he also taught and was involved in recordings from 1986 onwards. a. with Rob van den Broeck , Klaus Ignatzek , Rick Hollander , Walter Lang and Hendrik Meurkens ( Sambahia , Concord 1990). He then lived for several years in India, where he learned tabla and studied Indian classical music and played with Indian jazz musicians at the Bombay International Jazz Festival.

In 1993 Armacost moved to New York and recorded their debut album Fire ( Concord Jazz ) with Kenny Barron , Gerald Cannon and Billy Hart and Shingo Okudaira , respectively , followed by a live recording ( Live at Smalls ) with guest soloist Tom Harrell . He also belonged to the Ugetsu formation (with Peter Tuscher , Adrian Mears , Bernhard Pichl , Martin Zenker , Dejan Terzic ), with whom several albums were created in Europe. During this time he also worked with Kenny Barron, Roy Hargrove , the David Murray Big Band, Maria Schneider Orchestra , Randy Brecker , Al Foster , Jimmy Cobb , Victor Lewis , Peter Erskine , Don Friedman and Joris Teepe . In the 2010s he was also a member of the New York Standards Quartet and co-leader of the Brooklyn Big Band , for which he composes and arranges. In 2018 he worked on David Berkman's album Six of One . In the field of jazz he was involved in 44 recording sessions between 1986 and 2014.

Armacost composed for Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra . He has also taught at the Jamey Aebersold and Stanford Summer Jazz Workshops, at Queens College in New York City and as a visiting professor at universities in the USA, Japan and Europe.

Discographic notes

  • Live at Smalls (Double-Time Records, 1998), with Tom Harrell , Jonny King , Gerald Cannon, Shingo Okudaira
  • The Wishing Well (Double-Time Records, 2000), with Bruce Barth , Ray Drummond , Billy Hart
  • Brightly Dark (Satchmo Jazz Records, 2001) dto.
  • Craig Bailey , Tim Armacost & Brooklyn Big Band: Live at Sweet Rythm (Candid Productions Ltd., 2009)
  • New York Standards Quartet: Unstandard (Challenge, 2010), with David Berkman , Yosuke Inoue , Gene Jackson
  • New York Standards Quartet: The New Straight Ahead (Whirlwind, 2013), with David Berkman, Daiki Yasukagawa , Gene Jackson
  • New York Standards Quartet: Power of 10 (Whirlwind, 2014), with David Berkman, Michael Janisch , Gene Jackson
  • New York Standards Quartet: Sleight of Hand (Whirlwind, 2016), with David Berkman, Daiki Yasukagawa, Gene Jackson
  • Time Being (Whirlwind, 2016), with David Kikoski , Robert Hurst , Jeff Tain Watts

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Review of the Time Beeing album in Jazz thing 119/2017
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 10, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Armacost, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1962