Tim Hagans

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Tim Hagans in Birdland (2011)

Tim Hagans (born August 19, 1954 in Dayton , Ohio ) is an American jazz trumpeter.

Live and act

Hagans was a student of Kermit Simmons and graduated from Bowling Green State University . In 1974 he dropped out to join Stan Kenton's band, with whom he worked until 1977. In that year he joined Woody Herman's band, but after six weeks he went to Sweden, where he lived until 1981 and where he stayed. a. played with Sahib Shihab , Ernie Wilkins ' Almost Big Band , the Danish Radio Orchestra under Thad Jones and Dexter Gordon .

After his return to the USA he taught at the University of Cincinnati and from 1984 to 1986 at the Berklee College of Music . He then settled in New York and worked here with Joe Lovano and Fred Hersch , later with Bob Belden , Rick Margitza , John Hart , the Yellowjackets , the big bands of Bob Mintzer and Maria Schneider, and the Gil Evans Orchestra . After the debut album in 1983, Hagans recorded several albums as a band leader for Blue Note Records in the 1990s . After the two publications Animation - Imagination and Re-Animation: Live in Montreal with Bob Belden, which were influenced by hip-hop , drum and bass and psychedelic music, there was a break with Blue Note Records. From 1996 Hagans spent several weeks a year in Luleå in northern Sweden as the musical director of the Norrbotten Big Band . In the 2010s he continued to work with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and in the bands of Michael Feinberg , Vic Juris ( Music of Alec Wilder ), Rufus Reid , Ted Nash , Andrew Rathbun , Jon Irabagon and with the Nils Landgren Funk Unit. In the field of jazz, he was involved in 210 recording sessions between 1974 and 2017, according to Tom Lord .

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  1. Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 23, 2019)