Jazz Articles about Tim Carey

About Tim Carey

Album Review

There are times when an album slips completely off the rails so abruptly and forcefully that it tarnishes what has come before it as well as what is to follow. Such is the case with Seatte-based saxophonist and composer Kate Olson's album, So It Goes, which is humming briskly along, free from perplexity or discord, until she and her companions decide to perform Alice Coltrane's enigmatic “Translinear Light." By the time those seven minutes-plus have passed, whatever positive impressions the ...

Album Review

Tim Carey: Room 114

Read "Room 114" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
December 16, 2012

Dedicated to his father, Seattle-based composer, educator and bassist Tim Carey's debut, Room 114, is a very intimate affair. Carey has been a professional musician for the past nine years and during that time he has honed his skills with such luminaries as trombonist Julian Priester, as well as, creative ethnic jazz ensembles. This combination of intimacy and expansiveness comes across on the opening “Waiting for One." Carey's romantic, Latin-influenced rhythmic embellishments contrast nicely with Brendan Odonnell's ...