Left-handed and well-traveled, Australia-turned-New York City guitarist Tim Jago offers fair warning with the title track to his latest recording, Time Shift (Bespoke Jazz ).
Before he moved to the United States in 2010, guitarist Tim Jago grew up in the outback bush terrain of Perth, Western Australia, where his unorthodox ideas and oversized talents stood out. He’s since collaborated with the likes of Chick Corea, Terence Blanchard, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dave Liebman, Bobby McFerrin and Arturo Sandoval, plus released albums with his trio The Grid and the band Nu-Jive, led by saxophonist Troy Roberts.
Time Shift (Bespoke Jazz), released under Jago’s own name, also features saxophonist Mark Small, keyboardist Martin Bejerano, acoustic and electric bassist Dion Kerr and drummer David Chiverton. And its title track starts with a strutting figure by the entire quintet, headed by the interlocking lines of Jago, Small, Bejerano and Kerr, whose electric bass growls.
But it’s drummer Chiverton’s inventive subdivisions that most create the time shifts within the nine-minute track. Its first solo section consists of trades between Jago, Bejerano and Kerr before Small’s solo shifts the feel into comparable tranquility. It’s short-lived, though, before Chiverton gets his chance to provide flurries amid the vamp of the other four participants near the coda.
The album of eight lengthy tracks includes five other Jago original compositions, plus two standards, Bernie Miller’s “Bernie’s Tune” and Johnny Green’s “Body and Soul.”
Listen to “Time Shift,” the title track to Tim Jago’s latest album, Time Shift, available now on Bespoke Jazz Records. Launch it here: Time Shift – Single by Tim Jago | Spotify
Photo courtesy of Tim Jago
