Tim Garland
@ the PizzaExpress Jazz Club
19 January 2010 - 1 February 2007

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Biography

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 - saxophone /bass clarinet
Vaughn Hawthorne-Nelson - saxophone
Gwilym Simcock - piano
Laurance Cottle - bass
Asaf Sirkis - drums

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