ReFocus Tim Garland
Album info
Album-Release:
2020
HRA-Release:
18.09.2020
Album including Album cover
- 1 I'm Late, I'm Late 03:50
- 2 Maternal 05:29
- 3 Thorn in the Evergreen 05:45
- 4 Dream State 03:26
- 5 Past Light 04:26
- 6 Night Flight 04:31
- 7 The Autumn Gate 04:21
- 8 Jezeppi 08:00
Info for ReFocus
One of the UKs finest saxophonists, and a member of Chick Corea’s legendary band, Tim Garland has taken the classic Stan Getz album with strings, Focus, from 1961 and created a reworking for our time. This is not a slavish recreation, or an attempt at nostalgia, but the result of a creative mind working in the spirit of the album, and with the legacy of a great artist. It’s an exercise in expressing the past in the present and the future.
Tim has brought together a multi-talented chamber orchestra to interpret his interpretation and compositions. “It is not just the spirit of Focus I wished to pay homage to on this album, but the experimental urges of the early 1960s that were heard in jazz, film music, and the classical world - fuelled by romanticism and the burgeoning psychedelia of the new decade.”
“Formidable and devastatingly creative” (The Guardian)
Tim Garland, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone (on Jezeppi), piano
Asaf Sirkis, drums, crotales
Yuri Goloubev, bass
John Turville, piano (on Jezeppi)
Ant Law, guitar (on Jezeppi)
Thomas Gould, violin
Ben Hancox, violin
Magdalena Filipczak, violin
Rakhi Singh, violin
Simran Singh, violin
Robin Ashwell, viola
Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola
Cecilia Bignall, cello
Lauren Scott, harp
Recorded by Andrew Dudman at Abbey Road Studio (21st December 2017) and by Ronan Phelan (10th June 2019) at MasterChord Studio
Mixed by Dan Hayden
Mastered by Peter Beckmann at TechnologyWorks UK
Produced by Tim Garland, Dave Stapleton
Tim Garland
was born in 1966, studied composition at the Guildhall School under Robert Saxton and changed first study to saxophone half way through his course.
He has won a series of BBC awards for band leading and composition between 1989 and 2006.
In 2008 he won a Grammy for his orchestrations of Chick Corea's music on "The New Crystal Silence" and continues to be Chick's saxophone player touring the jazz scene internationally.
He was Research Fellow at Newcastle University between 2004 and 2008 and has been a visiting proffessor at the Royal Academy Of Music for over a decade.
Garlands ensembles have often consisted of innovative line-ups, he has been the inspiration between "Acoustic Triangle", "Storms'Nocturnes" "The Underground Orchestra" and his continuing project "Lighthouse" which was formed in 2004.
He is married with two children and shares his time between London and the North East of England.
Tim is one of the most versatile musicians in the UK. He won a Grammy for his orchestrations of the Chick Corea CD "The New Crystal Silence", which he helped produce at the Sydney Opera House, and is accepting commissions as composer and arranger from several of the worlds leading orchestras.
He has won several BBC awards for his small ensemble projects and delights in fusing together differing musical disciplines. Particularly familiar with the worlds of contemporary orchestral and jazz music, Tim is also adept in creating music in the studio using electronic and pre-recorded material.
His skills extend to writing lyrics, many of which are evident on this site, and he has formed lasting relationships with several internationally renowned musicians, often working onstage alongside them.
Tim is a founder shareholder with Audio Network and has written for the RPO, the LSO, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, Westminster Abbey Choir and many other ensembles that are drawn to his eclectic vision. He likes to refer to his wide-ranging output as a ‘Diverse Unity’.
This album contains no booklet.