Tim Garland

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Tim Garland ( Moers Festival 2004)

Tim Garland (born October 19, 1966 in Ilford , London) is a British modern jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , bass clarinet , synthesizer ) and composer .

Live and act

Garland graduated from the Guildhall School of Music with a degree in composition. During this time he wrote a suite and in 1988 Points of the Curve , which appeared on the album of the same name. There he presented himself for the first time as a saxophonist (he had only played the instrument for three months). In 1990 he toured Great Britain and Scandinavia as a member of Ronnie Scott's band . With the guitarist Don Paterson he founded the ethno-jazz group Lammas , which released an album in 1991. Since 1994 he has led another band together with Gerard Presencer , the projects Dean Street Underground Orchestra ,Storms / Nocturnes , Acoustic Triangle and finally the Lighthouse Project followed. He continued to work with Simon Hale , Jim Mullen , Johnny Dankworth , Anthony Kerr, Bill Bruford , Ralph Towner , John Taylor , Kenny Wheeler , Peter King , Chick Corea , Kinga Głyk and the London Jazz Orchestra , for which he also composed and arranged. He wrote a number of instrumental concerts for the London Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles, which are assigned to the Third Stream . He also wrote choral works and film music .

Prizes and awards

In 1989 Garland was awarded a Soloist Prize by the BBC . His Ensemble Lammas received the British Jazz Award for best group in 1993 . In 2006 the Parliamentary Jazz Society Vote declared him Musician of the Year. He orchestrated the album The New Chrystall Silence by Corea and Gary Burton received a Grammy in 2009 for best instrumental album in jazz.

Discographic notes

  • Points of the Curve (1988, with Paul Dias-Jayashina, Robin Aspland , Howard Britz, and Mark Fletcher)
  • Lamma This Morning (1993, with Don Paterson, Christine Tobin , Steafan Hannigan, Mark Fletcher)
  • Weather Walker (2018, with Jason Rebello or Pablo Held , Yuri Goloubev , as well as string orchestra or chamber orchestra)

Web links

Lexigraphic articles

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio
  2. ↑ The Mystery: Orchestral Music by Tim Garland (All About Jazz)
  3. ↑ Tom Semmler : Between the Worlds: Tim Garland - Weather Walker. highresmac.de, May 15, 2018, accessed on July 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Garland, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waggett, Timothy Garland (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilford