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acoustic bass Chris Colangelo
alto saxophone Nicole McCabe
composed by Mark Masters
drums Kendall Kay
engineer Talley Sherwood
french horn John Dickson
mastered by David Glasser
piano Jeffrey Colella
tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone Jerry Pinter
trombone Dave Woodley
trumpet Tim Hagans
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.
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