{{Short description|American jazz musician}} {{BLP sources|date=November 2016}} '''Chris Tyle''' (born May 1955) is [[dixieland]] jazz musician who performs on [[cornet]], trumpet, clarinet and drums.
==Career== [[Image:FQFest93TyleSilverleaf.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Chris Tyle (at microphone with trumpet) leading a combo in the [[French Quarter]], 1993]] Tyle grew up in a musical family. His father, Axel Tyle (1912–1981), was a [[jazz]] drummer and member of the Portland, Oregon-based [[Castle Jazz Band]].<ref name="Smith">{{cite web|last1=Smith|first1=Hal|title=Chris Tyle's Lifelong Musical Odyssey|url=https://syncopatedtimes.com/chris-tyles-lifelong-musical-odyssey/|website=The Syncopated Times|accessdate=30 June 2020|date=1 July 2020}}</ref>
Tyle's first musical job was with Don Kinch's Conductors Ragtime (1976–1979). Kinch (1917–2011), played with Axel Tyle in the Castle Jazz Band in the late 1940s, and went on to work with the [[Turk Murphy]] Jazz Band and the [[Firehouse Five Plus Two]].
In 1979 Tyle played and recorded with the Turk Murphy Jazz Band in San Francisco, then returned to Portland to form a [[swing music]] band named Wholly Cats (named after a number written and recorded by [[Benny Goodman]] and [[Count Basie]]). The band was a popular fixture on the Portland scene from 1979–1984, releasing an album in 1982. After disbanding the group's vocalist and guitarist, Rebecca "Becky" Kilgore, went on to become a popular freelance artist and has made many recordings and festival appearances.<ref name="Smith"/>
Tyle moved to New Orleans in 1989, immediately becoming an in-demand performer with a number of groups, including Steve Pistorius's Mahogany Hall Stompers, [[Jacques Gauthe]]'s Creole Rice Jazz Band, and John Gill's Dixieland Serenaders . He also worked with jazz greats [[Danny Barker]] (guitar) and [[Pud Brown|Albert "Pud" Brown]] (clarinet/sax). In 1992 Tyle formed the Silver Leaf Jazz Band which worked six nights-a-week at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on Bourbon Street.
In 2002 Tyle returned to the Pacific Northwest to pursue a freelance career. Up until 2015 he performed regularly with the Titanic Jazz Band of Los Angeles, Combo DeLuxe of Seattle/Tacoma, and "subbed" with Bob Schulz' Frisco Jazz Band of San Francisco and other West Coast traditional jazz bands. He also has frequently performed in Europe, most notably with the Gambit Jazzmen of England.<ref name="Smith"/>
In 2006 he became a member of the orchestra for the musical A la Recherche de Joséphine (Looking for Josephine), directed and written by [[Jérôme Savary]], and starring [[Nicolle Rochelle]]. The show ran for six months in 2006-2007 at the [[Opéra-Comique]] in Paris, France, and has subsequently toured in France, performed in Vienna, the United States, and Lebanon.
Tyle has made over 70 recordings with a variety of groups, including eight with his Silver Leaf Jazz Band. A song from his Silver Leaf Jazz Band album ''The Smiler'' (Stomp Off) was used in the PBS documentary ''[[Jazz (TV series)|Jazz]]''. Another Silver Leaf Jazz Band album, ''New Orleans Wiggle'' (Jazzology), received the highest rating in the ''Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 2003'', one of only ten recordings in the book to receive this rating.
In addition to musical performance, Tyle is a writer and educator. He has written many articles and is a contributor to Jazz Standards. He is a member of the International Association of Jazz Educators and the [[Jazz Journalists Association]].
Tyle moved to France in October 2015 and retired from full-time performance, due in part to a medical condition known as [[essential tremor]] which is exacerbated in performance situations. He continues to play clarinet with the New Orleans Jazz Trio.<ref name="Smith"/>
==Selected discography== '''Chris Tyle's Silver Leaf Jazz Band of New Orleans''' * ''Streets and Scenes of New Orleans'' ([[Good Time Jazz Records|Good Time Jazz]]/[[Concord Music Group|Concord]]) * ''Jelly's Best Jam'' (Good Time Jazz/Concord) * ''Great Composers of New Orleans Jazz'' (Good Time Jazz /Concord) * ''New Orleans Wiggle'' ([[Jazzology Records|Jazzology]]) * ''The Smiler'' ([[Stomp Off]]) * ''Sugar Blues'' (Stomp Off)
'''[[Turk Murphy]] Jazz Band''' * ''A Natural High'' – [[Turk Murphy]] Jazz Band (Bainbridge)
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