Tim Garland

Tim Garland (born 19 October 1966) is a British jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. His compositions draw from modern jazz and classical concert music.

Career

Garland was born in Ilford, Essex and grew up in Canterbury, Kent. He started on clarinet and piano before switching to saxophone when he was fifteen. At the Guildhall School of Music he studied jazz and classical composition. In 1988 he recorded his first album, ''Points on the Curve''.

As a bandleader, he first achieved recognition with the jazz/folk crossover group Lammas (which included Don Paterson and Christine Tobin), going on with a number of groups under his own name, the Dean Street Underground Orchestra, Storms/Nocturnes, Acoustic Triangle, and the Lighthouse Project.

During the 1990s, he worked with Ronnie Scott and Ralph Towner. After releasing ''Enter the Fire'', his second album as a leader, he became a member of the Origin band led by Chick Corea. He has also belonged to bands led by Bill Bruford, Allan Ganley, and John Dankworth.

He has fulfilled commissions from the Royal Northern Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, and Westminster Abbey Choir, as well as small and large jazz-based ensembles. In 2013, he premiered his suite ''Songs to the North Sky'' for jazz trio and orchestra, written in 2012 for the trio Lighthouse with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, performed by them and the London Sinfonia.

In 2009, Garland won a Grammy Award for his part in creating "The New Crystal Silence" which celebrated Chick Corea and Gary Burton's partnership. He orchestrated five of Corea's pieces for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Awards and honours

* Musician of the Year, Cross-Parliamentary Jazz Society, 2006
* Grammy Award, ''The New Crystal Silence'', 2009
* Album of the Year, ''One'', ''Jazzwise'' Readers' Poll, 2016

Discography

As leader

* 1988 ''Points on the Curve'' (Future Music)
* 1995 ''Tales from the Sun'' (EFZ)
* 1997 ''Enter the Fire'' (Linn)
* 2000 ''Made by Walking'' (Concord/ Stretch)
* 2002 ''Playing to the Moon'' (Jazz House)
* 2004 ''Change of Season'' (Sirocco)
* 2005 ''If the Sea Replied'' (Sirocco)
* 2009 ''Libra'' (Global Mix/Proper)
* 2002 ''Jazz, Boogie, Classical'' (Audio Network Plc) with Geoff Keezer
* 2011 ''Storms/Nocturnes'' (Origin) with Geoff Keezer and Joe Locke
* 2011 ''Via'' (Origin)
* 2012 ''Lighthouse'' ( ACT)
* 2014 ''Songs to the North Sky'' (Edition)
* 2015 ''Return to the Fire'' (Edition)
* 2016 ''One'' (Edition)

As sideman

With Dominic Alldis
* 2000 ''If Love Were All: The Songs of Noel Coward''
* 2002 ''Watch What Happens: The Songs of Michel Legrand''

With Chick Corea
* 2000 ''Originations''
* 2006 ''The Ultimate Adventure''
* 2008 ''The New Crystal Silence''
* 2012 ''The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra''
* 2013 ''The Vigil''

With Bill Bruford
* 2004 ''Random Acts of Happiness''
* 2006 ''Earthworks Underground Orchestra''

With Alec Dankworth
* 1994 ''Nebuchadnezzar''
* 1996 ''Rhythm Changes''

With Joe Locke
* 2001 ''Storytelling''
* 2002 ''State of Soul''
* 2002 ''Storms/Nocturnes''
* 2003 ''Rising Tide'', Storms/Nocturnes
* 2011 ''Via'', Storms/Nocturnes

With others
* 1997 ''Medazzaland'', Duran Duran
* 2000 ''Rhythm Indicative'', Damon Brown
* 2001 ''Stability'', Clark Tracey
* 2003 ''Dance for Human Folks'', London Jazz Composers' Orchestra
* 2003 ''Falling Up'', Geoff Keezer
* 2003 ''Mad Dogs and Englishmen'', Graham Dalby
* 2005 ''Dancing with the Moon'', John Aram
* 2006 ''Brightness of Being'', Paul Bollenback
* 2011 ''It Happens Quietly'', Jacqui Dankworth
* 2012 ''Soul Shadows'', Denise Donatelli

References

External links

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1966 births
Living people
Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
British jazz composers
British jazz saxophonists
British male saxophonists
British jazz clarinetists
21st-century saxophonists
21st-century clarinetists
Male jazz composers
21st-century British male musicians
Earthworks (band) members
FMR Records artists
Edition Records artists