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Kris Tiner
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Kris Tiner is a trumpet artist, composer, and educator active on the West Coast jazz and creative music scene for over 25 years. His playing has been described as “extraordinarily inventive” in Signal to Noise Magazine, “perfectly suited to the moment” in DownBeat, and the LA Weekly states that “trumpeter Kris Tiner can turn barbed wire to beauty.” Tiner’s compositions explore connections between improvisational music traditions and systemic practices, blending jazz roots with multiple streams of contemporary music. His music has been performed on five continents and his 80+ recordings have been enthusiastically reviewed in the international jazz press. He has received awards from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, the Kennedy Center, the Kern County Music Educators Association, and the Levan Center for the Humanities. He was a Lucas Artists Fellow in composition at Montalvo Arts Center from 2012-15, where he wrote and recorded music for the solo trumpet album In the Ground and Overhead. He is a recipient of the Paul A. Shaghoian Jazz Educator Award from the California Music Educators Association, and he is a 2023 inductee into the CSUB Alumni Hall of Fame.
Flight
By Alex Sadnik
Label: Big Ego
Released: 2024
Track listing: Donna Lee;
Parker's Mood;
Bird of Paradise;
Yardbird Suite;
Red Cross;
Segment/Diverse.
Alex Sadnik: Flight
by Jeff Schwartz
What is new to say through Charlie Parker's music? On Flight Alex Sadnik looks for answers with two different bands. On the first side of the LP, his alto fronts a quintet with violin, pedal steel guitar, bass,and drums, but this is not a Bob Wills or Bill Frisell pastiche. The opening track, ...
In the Ground and Overhead
By Kris Tiner
Label: Epigraph Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bees and Thorns; Rising; Sorrow Eyes: Remembrance; Hope Anyways; White Blossoms Motion (No Gain); Morning Rangjung; Trapa; Almar, Point the Way; Lookout Trail; Deer on the Great Lawn; Coyote, Green Illumination; Spotted Cloud-Serpent; Stillness; In the Ground and Overhead.
Cathlene Pineda: Rainbow Baby
by Dan McClenaghan
Charlie Parker said: If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." In Cathlene Pineda's case, it could be said: If you don't live it, it won't come out of your piano, or your compositional pen." Motherhood is a big part of what Pineda has lived, an equilibrium of emotion on ...
Nathan Hubbard / Skeleton Key Orchestra: Furiously Dreaming
by Dave Wayne
Sprawling. Massive. Unapologetically ambitious. All over the musical map. But, somehow, not excessive. Furiously Dreaming is a two-CD set by percussionist / composer / musical visionary Nathan Hubbard and his 50-member (for this recording) Skeleton Key Orchestra. The leader or co-leader of a dozen or so different small ensembles playing everything from modern jazz to contemporary ...
Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet: Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet
by Mark Corroto
While the tagline 'Miles Smiles' is more befitting Miles Davis' second great quintet, it is an apt reference to this recording by the Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet (IAHRQ), who draw not so much from the Columbia recordings by Miles Davis E.S.P> (1965), Sorcerer (1967), or Nefertiti (1968) but from the great electricity of Live-Evil (1971) ...
Empty Cage Quartet: Empty Cage Quartet
by Eyal Hareuveni
The sixth album of West Coast Empty Cage Quartet features this unique, hard -riving outfit in its most abstract mode to date. During the last decade, the quartet focused on exploring new ways of integrating diverse influences into an original, creative blend--from modern forms of jazz improvisation to contemporary experimental practices. This self-titled, ...
Nakatani Tiner Drake: Ritual Inscription
by Eyal Hareuveni
Epigraph Records first release, Ritual Inscription, documents live, improvised creative music in Bakersfield, California, Epigraph's home base. Renowned Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani meets two local comrades, trumpeter Kris Tiner (the founder of the label) and guitarist Jeremy Drake for two intense improvisations.Chaotic sounds of gongs and assorted percussion merge with serene lines from the ...
Bridges
By Kris Tiner
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Bobo (Tiner); 02. Maslow (Tiner); 03. Osho (Tiner); 04. Bridges (Baggetta); 05. Aurobindo (Tiner); 06. Govinda (Tiner); 07. The Truth (Baggetta); 08. Inayat Khan (Tiner); 09. Just Like a Woman (Dylan).