The Tim Garland Group
@ the Love Supreme Jazz Festival
6 July 2019

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Biography

Tim Garland leads an all-star quartet, playing music from his highly praised Weather Walker album. Garland toured the world for many years with the legendary Chick Corea and is the creative force behind several international projects, making him one of the most experienced band leaders on today's scene. Expect power and lyricism in equal measure from this stellar line up.

Tim Garland had only played the saxophone seriously for three years before he joined Ronnie Scott for a series of gigs around northern Europe and the UK. Since then he has played with most of the UK’s prominent jazz musicians such as Stan Tracey, Peter King, Kenny Wheeler, John Taylor, Jean Toussaint, Tommy Smith and John Taylor.

Garland studied composition with Robert Saxton at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he progressed to become a successfull bandleader of several projects, most notably with the jazz/folk crossover group Lammas (featuring Don Paterson and Christine Tobin) achieving several awards from four albums. Garland has also written and recorded for the London Jazz Orchestra, and the Dankworth Generation Band. In 2006 he was voted Musician Of The Year by the 2006 Cross-Parliamentary Jazz Society.

Garland continues to perform in festivals around the globe with various bands, as well as groups under his own name. He is a key member of Bill Brufford's celebrated Earthworks project and plays tenor saxophone with Chick Corea.

Musicians:
Tim Garland - saxophones
Jason Rebello - piano
Yuri Goloubev - bass
Asaf Sirkis - drums