Tim Garland

British saxophonist and reed player Tim Garland is a forward-thinking jazz musician whose inventive style often crosses the boundaries between modern creative improvisation and contemporary classical composition. Born in Ilford, Essex in 1966, Garland grew up in Canterbury, Kent in a musical family with a cellist father. Starting out on clarinet and piano, Garland first began playing saxophone at age 15, and quickly drew inspiration from albums by jazz musicians like saxophonist Michael Brecker and pianist Keith Jarrett. After high school, he studied composition at Guildhall S...