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Release Date: 2024-08-06Label: Capri Records
It was nearly fifty years ago that a teenage Mark Masters, then an aspiring young jazz trumpeter, first encountered the sound of trumpeter-flugelhornist Tim Hagans, who was playing in the Stan Kenton orchestra. Over the years, as Masters evolved into one of the most acclaimed composer-arrangers of his generation, he collaborated frequently with Hagans and came to know him as a singular talent. "Tim is a true original," Masters says. "He's developed his own harmonic language, which not many people have done. The term 'sui generis'"--a Latin phrase meaning "one of a kind"--"absolutely applies to him." Indeed, Sui Generis, is an album-length showcase for the trumpeter, placing him front and center of the composer's own idiosyncratic Mark Masters Ensemble. Originally conceived as featuring Hagans within a showcase of jazz standards, the project evolved into what Masters now calls "a kind of a concerto for chamber orchestra."