Tim Warfield
Tim Warfield | |
|---|---|
 Warfield in 2020 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | July 2, 1965 York, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupations | Musician, educator |
| Instrument | Tenor saxophone |
| Years active | 1990s–present |
| Labels | Criss Cross Jazz |
| Website | timwarfieldmusic |
Timothy Reginald Warfield Jr. (born July 2, 1965, in York, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Warfield picked up alto saxophone when he was nine years old, and switched to tenor when he was a teenager at William Penn Senior High School. After two years at Howard University he became a jazz musician full-time.[1]
Career
[edit | edit source]He worked with Marlon Jordan, the Tough Young Tenors, and Jazz Futures in the early 1990s, and played with Shirley Scott in the house band for Bill Cosby's show You Bet Your Life.[2] Later in the 1990s he worked with Jimmy Smith, Christian McBride, and Nicholas Payton;[1] other associations include work with Donald Byrd, Michele Rosewoman, Dizzy Gillespie, Isaac Hayes, Charles Fambrough, Orrin Evans, Joey Defrancesco,[1][3] and Danilo Perez.[citation needed]
Warfield is a member of the Terell Stafford quintet.[4] He is an assistant professor with the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia,[5] as well as an artist in residence at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Warfield is a member of The Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz non-profit organization, and Governor Tom Wolf appointed him as a member of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 2018.[6]
Discography
[edit | edit source]- A Cool Blue, (Criss Cross Jazz, 1995), with Terell Stafford, Cyrus Chestnut, Tarus Mateen, and Clarence Penn
- A Whisper in the Midnight (Criss Cross Jazz, 1996), with Stafford, Stefon Harris, Chestnut, Mateen, and Penn
- Gentle Warrior (Criss Cross Jazz, 1998), with Chestnut, Mateen, Penn, Stafford, and Nicholas Payton
- Jazz Is... (Criss Cross Jazz, 2002), with Penn, Chestnut, Payton, Harris, and Mateen
- One for Shirley (Criss Cross Jazz, 2008)
- A Sentimental Journey (Criss Cross Jazz, 2010)
- Tim Warfield's Jazzy Christmas (Undaunted Music, 2012)
- Eye of the Beholder (Criss Cross Jazz, 2013)
- Inspire Me (CD Baby, 2013)
- Spherical (Criss Cross Jazz, 2015), dedicated to Thelonious Sphere Monk
- Jazzland (Criss Cross Jazz, 2018)
As sideman
[edit | edit source]- Nicholas Payton, Dear Louis (Verve, 2001)
- Stefon Harris, The Grand Unification Theory (Blue Note, 2003)
- Nicholas Payton, Sonic Trance (Warner Bros., 2003)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ "Tim Warfield". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1965 births
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 20th-century American saxophonists
- 21st-century American male musicians
- 21st-century American saxophonists
- American jazz saxophonists
- American male saxophonists
- American male jazz musicians
- Jazz musicians from Pennsylvania
- Living people
- Musicians from York, Pennsylvania
- Temple University faculty
- Criss Cross Jazz artists