TIN/BAG, the bi-coastal duo of California trumpeter KRIS TINER and New York guitarist MIKE BAGGETTA, deals with a music that is spare and ethereal, exploring the spaces between jazz, traditional musics, and contemporary composition. Since 2004 Tiner and Baggetta have toured extensively, re-investigating the roles and possibilities of their instruments through their original music alongside inventive renderings of works by Bob Dylan, Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, Carla Bley and Anthony Braxton.
Their 2005 debut CD There, Just As You Look For It on pfMENTUM Records was met with enthusiastic reviews and continues to receive international airplay. Tin/Bag’s second CD And Begin Again, released in 2007 on Evander Music, featured several new compositions along with two extended works for quartet with virtuoso L.A. clarinetist Brian Walsh and the acclaimed NYC jazz percussionist Harris Eisenstadt. In 2010, supported by a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum, Tin/Bag recorded a new set of original compositions for their latest album Bridges released in 2011 on the MabnotesMusic Label.
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TIN/BAG:
Bridges
(MabnotesMusic MMCD002) 2011
Purchase at Bandcamp • Amazon • iTunes
KRIS
TINER trumpet
MIKE BAGGETTA guitar
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KRIS
TINER is a California-based trumpet player, composer, and improviser. Featured on NPR Music as one of five new trumpet voices impacting modern music, Tiner has been described as “extraordinarily inventive” (Signal to Noise), and LA Weekly jazz critic Greg Burk claims, “Trumpeter Kris Tiner can turn barbed wire to beauty.” He has performed at concert venues and festivals throughout North America and in Europe and West Africa, and appears on over 40 recordings. His own projects have been released on the Clean Feed, pfMENTUM, Nine Winds, and Evander Music labels. As a composer-improviser, Kris has received awards from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, the International Association for Jazz Education, and the John F. Kennedy Center. In addition to numerous interdisciplinary collaborations involving dance, poetry and spoken word, visual art, film, and animation he has recorded music for radio, television, and motion picture scores and his trumpet playing has been heard on MTV, NBC, and Comedy Central. He is a member of the Empty Cage Quartet – a collaborative new jazz ensemble that has been hailed as “one of the most powerful and appealing jazz units currently active” (All About Jazz). Kris is a regular member of the Industrial Jazz Group and a founding member of the Los Angeles Trumpet Quartet. Among the many notable musicians he has performed and/or recorded with are Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Donald Robinson, Gerry Hemingway, Nels Cline, Mary Oliver, Ken Filiano, Kraig Grady, and Tatsuya Nakatani. Kris holds an MFA in African-American Improvisational Music from California Institute of the Arts and a BA in Music from California State University, Bakersfield. He has lectured on both music and visual art, and currently teaches courses in jazz and American popular music at Bakersfield College.
Guitarist
and composer MIKE BAGGETTA is one of his generation’s most original jazz improvisors and composers. It has been said that his performances are "totally compelling" (Jazz Journal - UK), "his melodic sense is truly beautiful" (JazzReview.com) and that "each piece he performs creates new worlds of possibilities" (The Hartford Courant). Mike Baggetta recently received an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award for his compositional talent, and the first album of his works for the Mike Baggetta Quartet, Small Spaces, has recently been released on the Fresh Sound New Talent label with their 2nd for the same label, Source Material, being released in the autumn of 2011. In addition to leading the Mike Baggetta Quartet (featuring Jason Rigby, Eivind Opsvik and George Schuller), Mike co-leads Tin/Bag, a new music duo with California trumpeter Kris Tiner. Baggetta has had the pleasure of performing and/or recording with Tom Harrell, Conrad Herwig, Ralph Bowen, Adam Kolker, Jeff Hirshfield, Ken Filiano, Jamie Baum, Tony Reedus, Steve LaSpina, Cameron Brown, Bill McHenry, Matt Wilson, George Garzone, Ron McClure, Joe Fonda, Kevin Norton, Bucky Pizzarelli and Ruth Brown among many others. Originally from Agawam, MA, Baggetta's musical studies have been insightfully guided by Ted Dunbar, Vic Juris, Stanley Cowell and Jim Hall. He has performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, New York City's Town Hall and many other leading concert venues worldwide. Mike currently lives in New York City and is an endorsing artist for D'Addario Strings and Evans Custom Amplifiers.
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booking, concert info, and all other inquiries, please
contact:
Kris Tiner: kris@kristiner.com
or Mike Baggetta: mike@mikebaggetta.com
"Radiant... there's an open, intensely emotional quality to the duo's playing... spare, haunting, with hints of modernist avant garde gestures."
-Andy Hamilton, The Wire (UK)
"Excellent... trumpeter Kris Tiner and guitarist Mike Baggetta explore abstract yet jazz-derived realms of expansive lyricism and liquid melody."
-Time Out New York
"Careful
listening is always evident as the two play off of each
other, whether shadowing lines or counterbalancing densities
and textures of the freely evolving pieces... What stands
out is the tension the two create as they shape the improvisational
forms with the juxtaposition of raw extended technique
and resonating tones and hanging harmonics... the two
maintain a taut, insightful approach to duet interaction."
–Michael Rosenstein, © Cadence
Magazine 2005, www.cadencebuilding.com
"No
this isn’t, in any sense of the notion, your father’s
jazz. Their precision in playing lines of like-mind and
character, as well as their honed and shared sense of
musical proportion is remarkable... If
you want to open your ears this is a good place to start..."
-Thomas R. Erdmann, JazzReview.com
"Kris
Tiner and 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...
Never overstepping the other's bounds, they provide
subtle contrasts and complements to the others statements.
Sparse, melodic and understated, And Begin Again offers a different side of these young and up-and-coming
artists talents."
–Troy Collins, AllAboutJazz.com
"Space
is the canvas, timing is relative. The full timbre and
resonance of tones suspend in time, then evaporate into
the surrounding wake of sound. Evening is the mood and
all is calm as these young lions of free music eloquently
pursue the masters’ path."
–Justin Outlier, KFJC 89.7 FM,
Los Altos Hills, CA
"There
is a strong balance of written and free sections, intricately
put together... both players are well matched, listening
and responding quickly and creatively."
–Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery,
New York
"Superb...
clearly cut from cloth that hasn't been designed yet...
I'm impressed, & any listener who is looking for something
'more' will agree with me when I declare it MOST HIGHLY
RECOMMENDED listening."
–Rotcod Zzaj, Improvijazzation Nation
#73
"Tiner
plays through a spectrum of tones and approaches, well
matched by Baggetta’s inventive, wiry guitar inventions.
Both embrace an aural adventurousness that leads the listener
to unforeseeable soundscapes and ear dreams."
–Rex Butters, All About Jazz Los Angeles
