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Kris Tiner
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Kris Tiner is a trumpet artist, composer, and educator active on the West Coast jazz and creative music scene for over 25 years. His playing has been described as “extraordinarily inventive” in Signal to Noise Magazine, “perfectly suited to the moment” in DownBeat, and the LA Weekly states that “trumpeter Kris Tiner can turn barbed wire to beauty.” Tiner’s compositions explore connections between improvisational music traditions and systemic practices, blending jazz roots with multiple streams of contemporary music. His music has been performed on five continents and his 80+ recordings have been enthusiastically reviewed in the international jazz press. He has received awards from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, the Kennedy Center, the Kern County Music Educators Association, and the Levan Center for the Humanities. He was a Lucas Artists Fellow in composition at Montalvo Arts Center from 2012-15, where he wrote and recorded music for the solo trumpet album In the Ground and Overhead. He is a recipient of the Paul A. Shaghoian Jazz Educator Award from the California Music Educators Association, and he is a 2023 inductee into the CSUB Alumni Hall of Fame.
Kris Tiner and Mike Baggetta: There, Just As You Look For It
by Jim Santella
Trumpeter Kris Tiner and guitarist Mike Baggetta interpret this set of original compositions with an ear toward meaningful conversation and an eye on balance. Baggetta's light, acoustic guitar spits and spurts with understated emotion, while Tiner's horns express a wide range of feelings. Their musical conversation heats up in places and slows to a crawl elsewhere ...
Kris Tiner and Mike Baggetta: There, Just As You Look For It
by Rex Butters
East meets west with this collaboration between California's Kris Tiner and New York's Mike Baggetta. With various trumpets and prepared acoustic guitar, they explore a variety of compositional models while leaving plenty of room for showcasing improvisational prowess. Tiner plays through a spectrum of tones and approaches, well matched by Baggetta's inventive, wiry guitar inventions. Both ...