John Fordham interview with Tim Garland on the release of his new CD

[Serial_Apologist]

See here:

http://londonjazznews.com/2024/04/30/tim-garland-new-album-moment-of-departure-releasing-3-may/

Tim Garland was a great favourite of Calum's, of course.

[Old Grumpy]

Thanks S_A.

I think I first saw Tim Garland with Gwilym Simcock and Malcolm Creese as Acoustic Triangle in Hexham Abbey around 20 years ago.

We have recently seen Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio in the first gig of their current UK tour at the National Centre for Early Music in York. An excellent gig predominantly featuring tracks from their new album.

Interestingly (well to me at least!) we have just attended several events at the superb Swaledale Festival, which has been artistically directed by Malcolm Creese for the last 17 years or so.

[Ian Thumwood]

There used to be regular gigs with Malcolm Crease down here as he was a resident of Romsey at one point. One of rhe Acoustic Triangle gigs was a Romsey Abbey. The group's original incarnation dates back further with Tony Coe and John Horler, the latter also being from Hampshire and also a Saints fan !

i had forgotten about Tim Garland and the article mentions him playing with the group Lammas who performed at one of rhe short lived Southampton Jazz Festivals around 1992. Looking back , it was a very different scene then with loads of gigs around the city. The next time I saw him, Garland was playing with Chick Corea.

[Serial_Apologist]

There used to be regular gigs with Malcolm Crease down here as he was a resident of Romsey at one point. One of rhe Acoustic Triangle gigs was a Romsey Abbey. The group's original incarnation dates back further with Tony Coe and John Horler, the latter also being from Hampshire and also a Saints fan !

i had forgotten about Tim Garland; the article mentions him playing with the group Lammas who performed at one of rhe short lived Southampton Jazz Festivals around 1992. Looking back , it was a very different scene then with loads of gigs around the city. The next time I saw him, Garland was playing with Chick Corea.

That's interesting, and I'm sure you are right. In addition Tim actually studied with Coe - both were either from or based in Canterbury. There's a Norma Winstone connection too - Norma on occasion sang with the Coe/Horler/Creese trio, and was featured on the first Lammas CD..

[Ian Thumwood]

There was a point in the late 1980s where sites band like Lammas were keen to incorporate folk elements into jazz. I was never really a fan of Lammas and never bothered to.check out band like Ken Hyder's Talisker either. There has always been something suspicious about incorporating folk in jazz and I was amazed when Garland cropped up 7n Chick Corea's band. At the time it was seen as a vindication of British jazz.

I prefer players like Tim Garland when they are in a more orthodox jazz setting. He is a musician who has struck me as being broad minded and with one foot in the Classical / serious camp. The one time I met him , he chatted about classical music and explainded how the Messiaen estate had put a block in jazz interpretations of his music. From recollection, the trio performed a reworking of a piece by Ravel.that night. I have been surprised that neither Tim Garland nor Gwylim Simcock never materialised on ECM.

The festival.in Swaledale looks interesting. It is a nice part of the world with an abundance of wildlife and medieval monasteries to visit as well as the whole James Herriott thing which I enjoy. I think he.was a really good writer. I am very keen to go back to North Yorkshire where I recall family holidays in the early 1980s with affection.

[Old Grumpy]

At the Swaledale Festival: The Chris Ingam Trio - Chris Ingam (piano*), Malcolm Creese (bass) and George Double (drums).

Interpreting the music of Dudley Moore.

Good fun all round and excellent players.

* A Steinway grand in this case