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Kris Tiner

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.

Tiner has toured widely with the Empty Cage Quartet, hailed by NPR Music as “a thoroughly modern and multifaceted jazz ensemble that stakes out a singular voice.” Their 2008 album Stratostrophic on Portugal’s Clean Feed label was praised as “one of the best things in jazz to emerge in the new millennium” by the UK magazine The Wire. He collaborates with guitarist Mike Baggetta in the duo Tin/Bag; their album Bridges was chosen as one of the ten best jazz recordings of 2011 in Time Out New York. Tiner is a member of the Cathlene Pineda Quartet, Chris Schlarb’s Psychic Temple, the Industrial Jazz Group, the Los Angeles Trumpet Quartet, the Bakersfield Jazz Orchestra, and the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra. He has performed with Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Kraig Grady, Tatsuya Nakatani, Nels Cline, Joe La Barbera, Lukas Ligeti, Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon, Gerry Hemingway, Donald Robinson, Charles Gaines, Angelica Sanchez, Gianni Gebbia, Jeff Kaiser, Lisa Mezzacappa, Phillip Greenlief, Nate Wooley, Lucian Ban, Todd Barton, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Jeff Parker, Ken Filiano, Taylor Ho Bynum, Sara Schoenbeck, Harris Eisenstadt, Jeff Coffin, and Michael Vlatkovich. He has been featured at the FONT Festival of New Trumpet Music (NYC), Aperitivo in Concerto (Milan), Clean Feed Festival (NYC), Angel City Jazz Festival (Los Angeles), Is That Jazz? Festival (Seattle), Gateshead Jazz Festival (UK), The Outpost Creative Soundspace Festival (Albuquerque), NMASS Festival (Austin), In The Flow Festival (Sacramento), and the Mission Creek Arts Festival (San Francisco). In addition to interdisciplinary projects involving dance, 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, PBS, and Comedy Central. He has had new works commissioned by Hibari Ensemble (Japan), Ensemble Offspring (Australia), Microscore Project (New Zealand), Slumgum, Okiro Large Ensemble, and numerous solo artists.

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Album Review

Alex Sadnik: Flight

Read "Flight" reviewed by Jeff Schwartz


What is new to say through Charlie Parker's music? On Flight Alex Sadnik looks for answers with two different bands. On the first side of the LP, his alto fronts a quintet with violin, pedal steel guitar, bass,and drums, but this is not a Bob Wills or Bill Frisell pastiche. The opening track, “Donna Lee," stretches and compresses Parker's speedy contrafact of “Indiana" into a medium waltz. Both Sadnik's alto tone and the metric liberties taken with ...

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Kris Tiner and Mike Baggetta: There, Just As You Look For It

Read "There, Just As You Look For It" reviewed 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 as the two artists labor to get their intended message just right. Thus, the session lacks spontaneity and relies instead on repetition, sustained space, ...

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Kris Tiner and Mike Baggetta: There, Just As You Look For It

Read "There, Just As You Look For It" reviewed 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 embrace an aural adventurousness that leads the listener to unforeseeable soundscapes and ear dreams.

The set opens with “The Road to El ...

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Recording

New CD "Bridges" from Kris Tiner & Mike Baggetta

New CD "Bridges" from Kris Tiner & Mike Baggetta

Source: Michael Ricci

"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 TIN/BAG, the duo of Trumpeter Kris Tiner and Guitarist Mike Baggetta, is excited to let you know about our new CD 'Bridges' on the MabnotesMusic label. This album has been a while in ...

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Kris Tiner / Mike Baggetta Southwest Tour June 30-July 8

Kris Tiner / Mike Baggetta Southwest Tour June 30-July 8

Source: All About Jazz

TIN/BAG, the bi-coastal duo of California trumpeter Kris Tiner and New York guitarist Mike Baggetta, deals with a mostly acoustic music that is spare, ethereal, and exploratory, “clearly cut from cloth that hasn't been designed yet..." (- Improvijazzation Nation). Their debut CD There, Just As You Look For It was released on the pfMENTUM label in March, 2005.

This will be the third tour in as many years for the duo, this time involving several esteemed guests and collaborators. Several ...

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Kris Tiner/Mike Baggetta: Music for Trumpet and Prepared Guitar

Kris Tiner/Mike Baggetta: Music for Trumpet and Prepared Guitar

Source: All About Jazz

KRIS TINER (trumpet) & MIKE BAGGETTA (prepared acoustic guitar)

East Coast CD Release Tour There, Just As You Look For It (pfMENTUM CD025)

For audio files and reviews: www.pfmentum.com/tinbag.html For more info: www.kristiner.com or www.mikebaggetta.com

June 21: A.P.E. Arts, Northampton, MA (www.apearts.org) June 22: Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA (www.zeitgeist-gallery.org) June 23: Radio Bean Coffeehouse, Burlington, VT (www.radiobean.com) June 24: UBU Studio, Portland, ME June 26: CBGB ...

”Trumpeter Kris Tiner can turn barbed wire to beauty...” -Greg Burk, LA WEEKLY “Peerless technique with a rigorous, Miles-like economy, and a folksy sort of lyricism that one does not usually find in avant-jazz.” -Dave Wayne, JAZZREVIEW.COM “Trumpeter Kris Tiner has a beautifully clear swing-to-freebop sound and a gift for phrases that hang provocatively in the air.” -Nate Dorward, Exclaim! Canada's Music Authority “Tiner in particular is a really compelling voice, blending the timbral resourcefulness of Smoker or Wadada with the focused linear constructions of, say, Booker Little.” -Jason Bivins, CADENCE MAGAZINE “Tiner plays through a spectrum of tones and approaches...” -Rex Butters, ALL ABOUT JAZZ LOS ANGELES “Tiner's trumpet and flugelhorn work is both conversational and eliptical, much like Bill Dixon's in its unhurried examination of space.” -Larry Nai, CADENCE MAGAZINE “Extraordinarily inventive..

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Primary Instrument

Trumpet

Location

Los Angeles

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

KRIS TINER 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. He has taught at CSU Bakersfield, Taft College, Wasco High School, and the Academy of Creative Education in Los Angeles, and he has been a visiting lecturer/clinician/performer at CalArts, Bennington College, Mesa College, Saddleback College and The Oakwood School as well as at numerous high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools throughout Southern California

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Flight

Big Ego
2024

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In the Ground and...

Epigraph Records
2020

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Bridges

Self Produced
2011

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And Begin Again

Evander Music
2007

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