Jazz Articles about Tim Jensen

Tim Jensen: A Mind for the Scenery

by Dan McClenaghan
March 9, 2004

Red flags flare up when a disc comes in with the tag “eclectic" lurking in the press material. The New Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word as “selecting or made up of what seems best of varied sources." But the word sometimes serves as a shorthand for—in the world of music assessment—unfocused or lacking continuity of vision. Fortunately, multiple reedman Tim Jensen's A Mind for the Scenery holds to the true definition.The Portland, Oregon-based arranger/composer does combine a dizzying ...