Tim Garland

Tim Garland ( * October 19, 1966 in Ilford, Essex ) is a British musician of modern jazz ( tenor and soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, synthesizers ) and composer.

Life and work

Garland graduated from composition studies at the Guildhall School of Music. He wrote at this time a suite and 1988 Points of the Curve, which appeared on the same album. There he presented himself for the first time as a saxophonist ( he played the instrument for only three months ). In 1990 he was a member of the band of Ronnie Scott on tour in the UK and Scandinavia. With guitarist Don Paterson, he founded the ethnic jazz group Lammas, 1991 presented an album. Since 1994, he led, together with Gerard Presencer another band who followed the projects Dean Street Underground Orchestra, Storms / Nocturnes, Acoustic Triangle and ultimately the Lighthouse Project. 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 and the London Jazz Orchestra, for which he also composed and arranged. For the London Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras, he wrote a number of instrumental concertos, which are attributed to the Third Stream. He also wrote choral works and film music.

Prizes and awards

1989 Garland was honored by the BBC with a Soloist Prize. His ensemble Lammas won the 1993 British Jazz Award for Best Group. 2006 declared him the Parliamentary Jazz Society Vote Musician of the Year. The orchestrated by him album The New Chrystall Silence of Corea and Gary Burton in 2009 received a Grammy for best instrumental album of jazz.

Disco Graphical 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 )