TIN/BAG,
the bi-coastal duo of California trumpeter Kris
Tiner and New York guitarist Mike
Baggetta deals with a music that is spare,
ethereal, and highly exploratory, "clearly cut
from cloth that hasn't been designed yet..."
(–Improvijazzation Nation). Both are among a generation
of young creative musicians contributing original new
music and pushing a re-examination of the roles and possibilities
of their instruments. Tiner and Baggetta have toured the
United States presenting their original duo compositions
and improvisations, having performed at CBGB's
(NYC), The Luggage Store Gallery
(San Francisco), Zeitgeist Gallery (Boston),
Line Space Line (LA), Bowery
Poetry Club (NYC), High Mayhem
(Santa Fe) and Café Metropol (LA)
among others.
Their
debut CD for pfMENTUM,
There, Just As You Look For It, was met with
enthusiastic reviews and continues to receive international
airplay. TIN/BAG’s latest CD And Begin Again,
recently released on Evander
Music,
finds the two reinterpreting the idea of the duo with
several new compositions along with two extended works
for quartet that feature virtuoso L.A. clarinetist Brian
Walsh
and rising jazz percussionist Harris
Eisenstadt.
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Kris
Tiner / Mike Baggetta:
There, Just As You Look For It
(pfMENTUM
CD025) 2005
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KRIS
TINER
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MIKE BAGGETTA prepared acoustic guitar
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KRIS
TINER
is active on the West Coast as a trumpet player, composer, and improviser. His music has been described as "extraordinarily inventive" by Signal to Noise, and Cadence Magazine calls him "a really compelling voice." He has performed at concert venues and festivals throughout North America and in Europe and West Africa and he appears on over 35 recordings. His own projects have been released on the Clean Feed, pfMENTUM, Nine Winds, and Evander Music labels. 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 and Comedy Central. His primary musical project apart from TIN/BAG is 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 the Los Angeles Trumpet Quartet, and he has collaborated with a broad range of creative musicians including Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Gerry Hemingway, Nels Cline, Ken Filiano, Kraig Grady,Tatsuya Nakatani, Jeff Kaiser, G.E. Stinson, Joe LaBarbera, Harris Eisenstadt, Lukas Ligeti and Brad Dutz. A California native, Kris holds an MFA in African-American Improvisational Music from California Institute of the Arts. He has lectured on both music and visual art, and currently directs the jazz program and teaches courses in jazz and American popular music at Bakersfield College.
Guitarist
and composer MIKE BAGGETTA is originally from Agawam, Massachusetts, and now lives in Brooklyn, New York. Inspired by his father, he began playing the guitar while in high school after previously studying violin and trombone. Mike went on to study music at Rutgers University, where he received his Bachelor and Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies. His talents have been recognized through a scholarship from the New Jersey Jazz Society, an invitation to participate in Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead residency program at the Kennedy Center, performing as a finalist in the Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship competition at the East Coast Jazz Festival and being one of seven international guitarists to compete in the Gibson Jazz Guitar Competition at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Mike leads his own quartet performing his original music, a trio reinterpreting the jazz repertoire through his personal view, and co-leads the duo TIN/BAG with trumpeter Kris Tiner. In addition, he has had the pleasure of performing and/or recording with Tom Harrell, Bucky Pizzarelli, Ruth Brown, Conrad Herwig, Tony Reedus, Ralph Bowen, Kevin Norton, Joe Fonda, Bill McHenry and violinist Christian Howes. Mike's most influential teachers have been Ted Dunbar, Vic Juris, Ralph Bowen, Stanley Cowell, and Conrad Herwig. He also cites master classes with guitarist Jim Hall as being particularly insightful.
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booking, concert info, and all other inquiries, please
contact:
Kris Tiner: kris@kristiner.com
or Mike Baggetta: mike@mikebaggetta.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
"Beautifully plangent...Throughout 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)
"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
"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
