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Return to the Fire

Record Details

Release
2015

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SIDE A
1. ABIDING LOVE 9.11
2. LAMENT 6.55
3. RETURN TO THE FIRE 5.14

SIDE B
1. VALSE POUR RAVEL 5.16
2. SEARCH FOR PEACE 9.52
3. ALL OUR SUMMERS 4.22

Musicians:

TIM GARLAND tenor, soprano saxophones and bass clarinet
GERARD PRESENCER trumpet and flugelhorn (tracks 1,3,4,5)
JASON REBELLO piano and fender rhodes
JEREMY STACEY drums (tracks 1,3,4,5,6)
MICK HUTTON double bass (tracks 1,4,5)

TOM FARMER double bass (tracks 2,3)
LAWRENCE COTTLE electric bass (track 6)
JAMES MADDREN drums (tracks 2,6)
ANT LAW guitar (track 6)

Reviews for ‘Return to the Fire’:

‘The result is fresh, cool and invigorating, often evoking classic period Wayne Shorter, particularly on Abiding Love…This is a bold, swinging, beautifully-crafted piece with a great doubled melody from the horns, and fine soloing from Garland, Presencer and Rebello. It’s full of dynamic variety, and long enough at over nine minutes to create moods both light and shady.’ LONDON JAZZ (UK)

‘The ballads have what it takes to be played in jazz bars ….For eyes, fingers and ears a superb product that Jazz fans of the gentle variety ( with a subtle fusion link ) may like.’ RAGAZZI MUSIC (DE)

‘…texture, phrases and instrumentation are finely worked and performed by the musicians in perfection…It swings.’ JAZZTHING (DE)

‘In many ways this album pays homage to a potent time in jazz history with the classic sound of a sax and trumpet jazz quintet of yesteryear presented and updated by some of Britain’s top-flight musicians’.WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN (AUS)

About ‘Return to the Fire’:

‘I met Tim Garland through his original Enter The Fire – and I wanted some of that fire in my band – thus our long musical friendship began. This Return To The Fire shows Tim, his beautiful compositions and the band’s prowess completely. Thanks to Tim and his compadres for keeping the Music Fires burning brightly.’CHICK COREA

1997. Tim Garland, a rising star in the UK jazz firmament, is in New York City, the metropolis of jazz. Staying at vibist Joe Locke’s apartment in Manhattan they are listening to the newly released Enter The Fire, when pianist Billy Childs arrives, and asks for a copy to give to a friend. That friend was the legendary Chick Corea who head-hunted Tim and this was the start of many years of international playing which continues today. 20 years on and Tim has reunited the same band to release ‘Return to the Fire’, a 6 track album, on digital and limited edition vinyl, to celebrate not just his own musical journey and reunite friends, but to return and pay homage to a potent time in jazz history.

Featuring long-term colleagues Gerard Presencer, Jason Rebello, Jeremy Stacey, Mick Hutton, Laurence Cottle, and more recent friends Tom Farmer, James Maddren and Ant Law ‘Return to the Fire’ captures on wax some of the most celebrated and exciting musicians from the UK and some of Britain’s’ finest exports on the vibrant international circuit. These recordings evoke the classic sound of the sax/trumpet jazz quintet of yesteryear, along with the freshness and spontaneity of music truly improvised, risk- taking and emotive.

This is an out-and-out jazz record; viewed alongside today’s vast array of hybrids of all styles, ‘Return to the Fire’ stands out as an album extolling the virtues of swing and the ethos of the acoustic quintets particularly celebrated in the Miles Davis bands. It swings. It burns, and whilst continuing to look forward (not least in the sophisticated and contemporary compositions) it is a heartfelt homage that also features two classic ballads (from JJ Johnson and McCoy Tyner). It is imbued with a maturity and collective spirit that only musicians with the wealth of experience, the refined skills, the belief in one another, the conviction and certainty on display in ‘Return To The Fire’ could hope to kindle.

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Credits:

Produced by Tim Garland
Executive Producer: Dave Stapleton
All music written by Tim Garland apart from Lament by JJ Johnson and Search For Peace by McCoy Tyner.

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