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"Very beautiful and atmospheric" Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
Press Release (pdf)
CD Reviews:
JAZZWISE - APRIL 2007
I'd be surprised if this doesn't appear in quite a few 'Best of...' lists
at the end of 2007. This is a genuinely fine record featuring some
wonderful arrangements of original pieces from Garland and tunes by
Chick Corea and Thelonius Monk. As 'composer-in-residence' at Newcastle
University, Garland had access to the Northern Sinfonia. That's quite a
train-set to give a boy! With this and its predecessor If The Sea
Replied, its been a gift well-given. The breadth harmonically,
rhythmically and melodically in this music is impressive, as is its
emotional range. The spread between the two movements of 'Who Is Father
Time?', written for a dance company, is quite magical from the slow,
stately passage of the minutes to the sense of years racing by. And the
way the staccato improvisation between Garland and Chick Corea opens out
into a fully-fledged orchestral score on the title piece is absolutely
commanding. But then the arrangements of three Monk tunes - 'Trinkle
Tinkle', 'Ruby My Dear', 'Evidence' - into a single suite based (I
think) on their harmonic progressions rather than their melodies is
astonishing, as is Garland's 'Fantsy On Crystal Silence', one of his
boss's tunes. This is vital, essential music for anyone interested in
the future of jazz composition. Third Stream, you bet!
Duncan Heining
THE OBSERVER - 29TH APRIL 2007
Tim Garland has won just about every jazz honour going and any release
by him is an event, but the sheer range of this programme is
extraordinary. It is played by Garland on saxophone and bass flute,
Chick Corea on piano, plus the entire Northern Sinfonia conducted by
Clark Rundell. As his work with trio Acoustic Triangle has proved, there
is no one who can more convincingly unite the jazz and European
classical idioms. From the deceptively simple 'Icelandic Lullaby' to a
canny reworking of three pieces by Thelonius Monk, the freshness of
Garland's invention is compelling.
Dave Gelly
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