Tim Garland

Tim Garland (born 19 October 1966) is a British jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. His compositions draw from modern jazz and classical concert music.
Career
Garland was born in Ilford, Essex and grew up in Canterbury, Kent. He started on clarinet and piano before switching to saxophone when he was fifteen. At the Guildhall School of Music he studied jazz and classical composition. In 1988 he recorded his first album, Points on the Curve.
As a bandleader, he first achieved recognition with the jazz/folk crossover group Lammas (which included Don Paterson and Christine Tobin), going on with a number of groups under his own name, the Dean Street Underground Orchestra, Storms/Nocturnes, Acoustic Triangle, and the Lighthouse Project.
During the 1990s, he worked with Ronnie Scott and Ralph Towner. After releasing Enter the Fire, his second album as a leader, he became a member of the Origin band led by Chick Corea. He has also belonged to bands led by Bill Bruford, Allan Ganley, and John Dankworth.
He has fulfilled commissions from the Royal Northern Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, and Westminster Abbey Choir, as well as small and large jazz-based ensembles. In 2013, he premiered his suite Songs to the North Sky for jazz trio and orchestra, written in 2012 for the trio Lighthouse with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, performed by them and the London Sinfonia.
In 2009, Garland won a Grammy Award for his part in creating "The New Crystal Silence" which celebrated Chick Corea and Gary Burton's partnership. He orchestrated five of Corea's pieces for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Awards and honours
Musician of the Year, Cross-Parliamentary Jazz Society, 2006
Grammy Award, The New Crystal Silence, 2009
Album of the Year, One, Jazzwise Readers' Poll, 2016
Discography
As leader
1988 Points on the Curve (Future Music)
1995 Tales from the Sun (EFZ)
1997 Enter the Fire (Linn)
2000 Made by Walking (Concord/Stretch)
2002 Playing to the Moon (Jazz House)
2004 Change of Season (Sirocco)
2005 If the Sea Replied (Sirocco)
2009 Libra (Global Mix/Proper)
2002 Jazz, Boogie, Classical (Audio Network Plc) with Geoff Keezer
2011 Storms/Nocturnes (Origin) with Geoff Keezer and Joe Locke
2011 Via (Origin)
2012 Lighthouse (ACT)
2014 Songs to the North Sky (Edition)
2015 Return to the Fire (Edition)
2016 One (Edition)
As sideman
With Dominic Alldis
2000 If Love Were All: The Songs of Noel Coward
2002 Watch What Happens: The Songs of Michel Legrand
With Chick Corea
2000 Originations
2006 The Ultimate Adventure
2008 The New Crystal Silence
2012 The Continents: Concerto for Jazz Quintet & Chamber Orchestra
2013 The Vigil
With Bill Bruford
2004 Random Acts of Happiness
2006 Earthworks Underground Orchestra
With Alec Dankworth
1994 Nebuchadnezzar
1996 Rhythm Changes
With Joe Locke
2001 Storytelling
2002 State of Soul
2002 Storms/Nocturnes
2003 Rising Tide, Storms/Nocturnes
2011 Via, Storms/Nocturnes
With others
1997 Medazzaland, Duran Duran
2000 Rhythm Indicative, Damon Brown
2001 Stability, Clark Tracey
2003 Dance for Human Folks, London Jazz Composers' Orchestra
2003 Falling Up, Geoff Keezer
2003 Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Graham Dalby
2005 Dancing with the Moon, John Aram
2006 Brightness of Being, Paul Bollenback
2011 It Happens Quietly, Jacqui Dankworth
2012 Soul Shadows, Denise Donatelli
References
External links
1966 births
Living people
Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
British jazz composers
British jazz saxophonists
British male saxophonists
British jazz clarinetists
21st-century saxophonists
21st-century clarinetists
Male jazz composers
21st-century British male musicians
Earthworks (band) members
FMR Records artists
Edition Records artists
Whirlwind Recordings artists