Jazz Articles about Tim Davies

About Tim Davies

Album Review

Tim Davies Big Band: The Expensive Train Set

Read "The Expensive Train Set" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 5, 2016

Tim Davies, who led a big band in his native Australia before relocating to Los Angeles in 2000, reprises that experience on parts of The Expensive Train Set, returning home to supervise his Melbourne ensemble on four selections, presiding over his Los Angeles-based band on four others, and somehow managing to blend the two groups together as one on the ambitious title song, which Davies calls “the centerpiece of the album," as well it should be. Whereas ...

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Album Review

The Tim Davies Big Band: Epic

by Jack Bowers
March 3, 2003

I must confess to some degree of apprehension when asked to review a “big band with turntables” whose “loops and synths” were “programmed by Ben Davis.” To paraphrase Shakespeare, such an enterprise doth not usually augur well. And indeed, there are moments on drummer Tim Davies’ album, Epic, especially on “Iron Chef Big Band” or “Chocolate Requiem,” when the Bard seems utterly prescient. Happily, there are many others on which the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” miss their mark ...