Tim Posgate: guitar, banjo, lap steel
Howard Johnson: tuba, baritone saxophone, penny whistle
Lina Allemano: trumpet
Quinsin Nachoff: tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute
Influences
My kids, Quebec cheese, Rob Clutton, hockey, Henry Threadgill, making videos, Howard Johnson, Canadian art and literature, blogging, podcasting, Earl Scruggs, Andy Milne
Sounds Like
"Tim Posgate is a Canadian guitarist who has demonstrated the kind of diverse idiosyncratic mindset in the past ten years that places him in the same musical vicinity as Bill Frisell."
"Sounds like legendary tuba player and multi-insturmentalist Howard Johnson, performing unique, original material with three of Canada's top jazz musicians."
-Gren Juniper, Tim's first guitar teacher (ca. 1974)
Homemade video for Martin Martin Martin
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The Tim Posgate Hornband is soon to release their second CD featuring American jazz-tuba legend and multi-instrumentalist Howard Johnson. (Charles Mingus, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Miles Davis, The Band, John Lennon…) The new music features a lot of banjo and even more eclectic influences moving toward the roots music category.
This group performed at the Rochester Jazz Festival, Stockholm Jazz Festival as well as the 40th anniversary of the Pori (Finland) Jazz Festival and has performed at all the major Canadian Jazz Festivals. (www.guildwoodrecords.com)
Leader, guitarist and primary composer Tim Posgate and trumpeter Lina Allemano have toured Canada extensively including work with Tim Posgate’s Jazzstory and were both recently nominated as top instrumentalists for Canada’s National Jazz Awards. Quinsin Nachoff is the fourth member playing tenor sax, clarinet and flute. Nachoff was the winner of Canada Council’s Jazz ID Competition as well as being a semi-finalist in the prestigious Thelonious Monk Tenor Sax Competition in Washington D.C.
With only three horns and guitar/banjo this unique quartet creates a mélange of sound that will entertain a friendly listener with it’s compositions drawing heavily on jazz, folk and bluegrass influences.
These three Canadians have all released numerous Cds as leaders as well as working with Joe Lovano, Don Byron, Steve Lacy, Kenny Wheeler, Mark Helias, Jim Black, and Jane Bunnett among others. Howard Johnson continues to perform with his popular tuba ensemble Gravity.
New album: Ingrid Jensen (trumpet), Geoff Countryman (tenor sax), Johannes Wallmann (piano), Sean Conly (bass), and Jeff Hirshfield (drums). Available Oct. 30 from iTunes, CDBaby.com, Amazon.com, and KeepItCute.com.
I played your "In the future of your dream" cd a while ago, and I let the neighbours hear the music, too that time (I normally respect people's right to choose their own soundscape, and don't force things on them), because the boys next door had been arguing and screaming all afternoon and I didn't know what to do about it, after I had been over at their place and checked that nobody was seriously hurt. Poor kids were alone at home, first day of summer break, so they fought over the computer, and chased each other from one end to the other of the place. When their mother finally came home, I didn't want to eavesdrop on their conversation with her, so I thought some loud but sensitive music was necessary.
A big thanks to all my friends... I just went over 10,000 listens on my player. I've added a fifth tune to my player, an arrangement of Scott Henderson's "Harpoon", the leader and guitar player of Tribal Tech.
A poem for your day:
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Rest In All Love Is
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I love you like this...
dark, i can barely see your eyes...
so dark my eyes are useless. My
heart opens wide its light on you
and your face brightens like the
static on a TV screen, or like the moment
we die and things begin to go all white
and
then
you're an angel laying before me...
the same one that has been there all along,
the one my eyes turned into something else and I
am ashamed I was deceived.
Then,
I see you, I see you like the energy that flows through my limbs,
now, like the breath that takes the universe and
gently creates another, now, like my feet walking
on glass, now, like I was never there.
I love you like I was never there. So gently, never there. In the dark
where I can barely see, and, rest in all that love is.
I look at you my Friend and I see a child at play
frolicking in muddy streams, splashing rivers into
oceans and carrying each molecule gently
to the sky for another round like a child handing water to his Father
for the first time.
You are neither boastful nor meek.
You are not shy nor are you seeking attention
There is simply abundance and grace with you my Friend
and you ask nothing of me...save I am my self...fully...always... and
you ask without asking...lead without
leading...cause...effortlessly.
I didn't draw the angel picture myself - I found it on a site with anonymously published free web page ornaments! I think I had to browse 90 pages or something, of less appealing stuff, before finding it.
If you're waiting for my comments about your cd's -- the comments are waiting, too, somewhere, in my memory, so I just have to find them and express them in words! (Maybe I need to listen more, too, so I can remember what I liked and why, soundwise.)
hey, tunes are working! go pos go..jazz hockey lives, but I'm still sore from last game, must have been all that fist pumping after my one and only pretty goal this year!
Hey Buddy,
We've come a long way from MacIntosh haven't we ? And look at us....still at it and more creative today than ever.....it's clear we're only in it for the music. After all this time....one truth, "music is it's own reward" from one artist to another....welcome to myspace. My hat is off to you.
