Jazz Articles about Tin/Bag

Tin/Bag: And Begin Again

by Troy Collins
June 17, 2007

And Begin Again documents an often overlooked side of a small group of up-and-coming bi-coastal improvisers. Los Angeles-based trumpeter Kris Tiner (Empty Cage Quartet) and New York- based guitarist Mike Baggetta deliver an attractive album of duets and quartet improvisations that resonate with a fragile harmonic maturity typically unheard in the work of such young, occasionally impetuous artists.

The duo's previous album There, Just As You Look For It (pfMentum, 2005) featured the duo working through texturally ambiguous ...