Jazz Articles about Tim Hagans

Mark Masters Ensemble: Everything You Did - The Music of Walter Becker & Donald Fagen

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 25, 2013

Qual è stata la lezione degli Steely Dan? Avvicinare il pop al jazz. Semplice, no? Non proprio, perché Donald Fagen e Walter Becker avevano davanti a sé varie possibilità e infinite soluzioni di sintesi. Non hanno scelto certo quella più mainstream, più scontata. Non era da loro, professionisti e perfezionisti fino alla nausea. Costruivano melodiche accattivanti e seducenti (vogliamo parlare di “Deacon Blue"?) su un'impalcatura armonica più complicata, con tessiture articolate e brillanti. Si facevano accompagnare nelle interminabili session, da ...

Tim Hagans: The Moon Is Waiting

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 2, 2012

Il trombettista Tim Hagans abbandona l'abituale compagno di strada Bob Belden e si avventura in una escursione in territorio jazz elettrico profumato di rock, alla testa di un quartetto che lo asseconda bene. Sono con lui il chitarrista Vic Juris (che ricordiamo anche alla corte di Dave Liebman), il bassista Rufus Reid e il batterista finlandese Jukkis Uotila che si propone anche come pianista. Quest'ultimo è certamente il componente meno noto del quartetto ma se la cava egregiamente e fornisce ...

Tim Hagans: The Moon is Waiting

by Raul d'Gama Rose
October 21, 2011

Trumpeter Tim Hagans shares a couple of things in common with Miles Davis. One is his absolute belief that his instrument shares something visceral with keeping fundamentally correct time--and therefore, on The Moon is Waiting, with drummer Jukkis Uotila. The other is his dalliances with the notes he plays; it is not that he always plays a note for a long time, but he stretches them as much as is required for each one to tug at the nerves, elongating ...

Tim Hagans: The Moon Is Waiting

by Dan Bilawsky
September 24, 2011

Those who mine exploratory veins of music often eschew structure, confusing lack of form with freedom, but trumpeter Tim Hagans knows the difference. The new quartet that he's convened for The Moon Is Waiting is a malleable unit that thrives on bringing unpredictable ideas into structured environments. The music it makes isn't fusion, free jazz, or post-modern patchwork, but it borders on all of those territories While the first three pieces were commissioned by the Michele Brangwen ...

Tim Hagans: The Avatar Sessions: The Music of Tim Hagans

by Dan Bilawsky
May 3, 2010

Over the past three-and-a-half decades, trumpeter Tim Hagans has worked with the most accomplished big bands in the world. Time spent with Stan Kenton, Thad Jones, Maria Schneider and Bob Mintzer has often placed him at the epicenter of large group creativity. These associations, along with many others, have helped him flesh out his own unique compositional style. The Avatar Session is a showcase for this writing, which encompasses everything from lush, hazy ballads and bebop tributes to funky, riff ...

Tim Hagans: The Avatar Session: The Music of Tim Hagans

by John Kelman
May 1, 2010

He's been its musical director since 1996, but since 2005 trumpeter Tim Hagans' work with the Swedish Norbotten Big Band has run in a parallel stream to his more intimate, small ensemble work on the German Pirouet label, most recently on Alone Together (2008). As good as Worth the Wait (Fuzzy Music, 2008) was, The Avatar Sessions: The Music of Tim Hagans--focusing exclusively, as it does, on the trumpeter's music--is an even stronger follow-up.

Once again, ...

Tim Hagans: Trumpet and Musical Elegance

by R.J. DeLuke
April 6, 2010

Trumpeter Tim Hagans, it appears at times, can almost fly under the radar. His splendid playing has been heard in a variety of contexts over the years, always creative, expressive, expansive. Maria Schneider expresses glee when he's able to be a part of her orchestra and help interpret her musical creations. He's been part of the Stan Kenton organization and played alongside the wonderful Thad Jones. He brings a bright, buoyant style to every occasion.“Everybody that I played ...