Tim Lin Quartet at Bird & Beckett Books & Records

Tim Lin, leading the date on tenor saxophone, grew up in the Bay Area, where his studies with Dann Zinn had a significant role in his development as a jazz musician. He pursued the art at USC under Bob Sheppard and was in Bob Mintzer’s orchestra there, and counts both of these major tenor sax artist-educators as mentors, along with Larry Schneider, who came to prominence in the 1970s as a sideman with Billy Cobham and Horace Silver and as a member of the Thad Lewis-Mel Jones Big Band, and Jerry Bergonzi, who was with Dave Brubeck as a guest artist in the mid-1970s and then as a member of his quartet from 1979-1982 and who now teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Tim has established his base in New York, where he’s active as a performer, composer and teacher, and travels frequently, spending significant time honing his craft and performing in Boston, Taiwan and the Bay Area....

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Tim Lin, leading the date on tenor saxophone, grew up in the Bay Area, where his studies with Dann Zinn had a significant role in his development as a jazz musician. He pursued the art at USC under Bob Sheppard and was in Bob Mintzer’s orchestra there, and counts both of these major tenor sax artist-educators as mentors, along with Larry Schneider, who came to prominence in the 1970s as a sideman with Billy Cobham and Horace Silver and as a member of the Thad Lewis-Mel Jones Big Band, and Jerry Bergonzi, who was with Dave Brubeck as a guest artist in the mid-1970s and then as a member of his quartet from 1979-1982 and who now teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Tim has established his base in New York, where he’s active as a performer, composer and teacher, and travels frequently, spending significant time honing his craft and performing in Boston, Taiwan and the Bay Area.

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