In the winter of 2002, Origin/OA2 Records signed a young composer and jazz pianist out of Chicago named Tim Green. Without promotion or fanfare, his debut CD, Catching Yourself Gracefully, received national acclaim. It quickly rose to number 32 on the Jazz Week chart and went on to be awarded as one of the Top 20 CDs of 2003 by National Public Radio’s WBEZ in Chicago. Critics and fans agreed that OA2 had launched a promising and innovative artist.
Green took his first formal piano lessons at the age of nineteen while attending Eastern Illinois University where he later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. Within a few years, while living in Champaign, he began performing in jazz groups around Illinois. During that time, he met and performed with a variety of touring jazz artists who encouraged him to move to Chicago to engage the opportunities that it provides.
Within a few months of moving to Chicago in 2000, Tim received a call from tenor saxophone legend Von Freeman to play in Von’s Quartet. Today he is recognized by All About Jazz as “... one of a growing number of young jazz musicians who are shaping jazz for the 21st century.”
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