{{Infobox musical artist | name = Gavin Templeton | image = 240px | caption = | birth_name = | alias = | birth_place = Atlanta, GA | death_date = | instrument = Saxophone, woodwinds | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician | years_active = 2008–present | label = Orenda Records <br/> Nine Winds Records | associated_acts = Daniel Rosenboom, Jose Gurria-Cardenas, Vinny Golia, Nels Cline, Dr. Mint | website = [http://www.gavintempletonmusic.com gavintempletonmusic.com] }}
'''Gavin Templeton''' is an American modern jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader, called "a pivotal force in the L.A. progressive jazz scene."<ref name="gastarita">Glenn Astarita, [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/in-series-gavin-templeton-nine-winds-records-review-by-glenn-astarita.php#.U8MxycaWTwI “Gavin Templeton: In Series,”] ''All About Jazz'', October 1, 2013.</ref>
==Early life and education== Templeton was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Reno, Nevada.<ref name="famjuly25">[http://fullyaltered.com/fa/2013/07/25/alto-saxophonist-bandleader-gavin-templeton-releases-2nd-album-in-series-on-nine-winds-records-october-8-2013/ “Alto Saxophonist-Bandleader Gavin Templeton Releases 2nd Album, In Series On Nine Winds Records October 8, 2013,”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116084314/http://fullyaltered.com/fa/2013/07/25/alto-saxophonist-bandleader-gavin-templeton-releases-2nd-album-in-series-on-nine-winds-records-october-8-2013/ |date=January 16, 2017 }} Fully Altered Media, July 25, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://bluewhalemusic.com/6-2-11-gavin-templeton-trio/ “Gavin Templeton Trio,”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216124955/http://bluewhalemusic.com/6-2-11-gavin-templeton-trio/ |date=2016-02-16 }} Blue Whale, June 2, 2011.</ref> He earned his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a master's degree from the California Institute of the Arts.<ref name="fullyalteredbio">[http://fullyaltered.com/fa/clients-past/gavin-templeton/ Gavin Templeton Bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116084216/http://fullyaltered.com/fa/clients-past/gavin-templeton/ |date=2017-01-16 }}, Fully Altered. Accessed February 12, 2016.</ref> He moved to Los Angeles, California, in 2006,<ref name="fullyalteredbio"/> where he is a part of the city's progressive jazz scene.<ref name="gastarita"/>
==Career== ===Solo and with trio=== Templeton's debut album, ''Asterperious Special'', was released on Nine Winds Records in 2012, with Templeton on alto saxophone, Larry Koonse on guitar, Gary Fukushima on piano, Darek Oles on bass and Joe LaBarbera on drums.<ref>Paul Fraser, [http://blog.calarts.edu/2012/07/23/jazz-saxophonist-gavin-templeton-releases-debut-album/ “Jazz Saxophonist Gavin Templeton Releases Debut Album,”] calarts.edu, July 23, 2012.</ref> The following year, he released ''In Series'', a modern jazz album featuring jazz-rock arrangements, recorded at Westlake Studios in Los Angeles.<ref name="gastarita"/><ref name="famjuly25"/> It features Templeton as composer and on alto saxophone, Perry Smith on guitar, Sam Minaie on bass, Matt Politano on piano and Matt Mayhall on drums.<ref name="gastarita"/> The album is built thematically around the contrast between material excess and poverty on the west side of Los Angeles.<ref>S. Victor Aaron, [http://somethingelsereviews.com/2013/10/06/gavin-templeton-in-series-2013/ “Gavin Templeton – In Series,”] Something Else, October 6, 2013.</ref>
The Gavin Templeton Trio's ''Some Spinning, Some At Rest'', was released in 2014 on Orenda Records.<ref>Dave Sumner, [http://www.wonderingsound.com/new-jazz-week-adam-baldych-yaron-herman-uri-caine-ernst-glerum/ “New Jazz This Week: Adam Baldych, Yaron Herman, Uri Caine, Ernst Glerum,”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216064918/http://www.wonderingsound.com/new-jazz-week-adam-baldych-yaron-herman-uri-caine-ernst-glerum/ |date=2016-02-16 }} ''Wondering Sound'', August 1, 2014.</ref> An album of original compositions by Templeton,<ref>George W. Harris, [http://www.jazzweekly.com/2015/06/alto-sax-triosgavin-templeton-trio-some-spinning-some-at-rest-dmitry-baesvsky-over-and-out/ “Alto Sax Trios,”] ''Jazz Weekly'', June 8, 2015.</ref> it combines composition and improvising, with Templeton on alto saxophone, Richard Giddens on double-bass and Gene Coye on drums.<ref name="rbush">Robert Bush, [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/some-spinning-some-at-rest-gavin-templeton-orenda-records-review-by-robert-bush.php “Gavin Templeton Trio: Some Spinning, Some At Rest,”] ''All About Jazz'', December 7, 2014.</ref> In received 5 out of 5 stars on ''All About Jazz'',<ref name="rbush"/> and was on the site's Best of 2014 list.<ref>Robert Bush, [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/robert-bush-best-of-2014-by-robert-bush.php “Best of 2014,”] ''All About Jazz'', January 11, 2015.</ref>
===Other work=== Templeton is a member of The Daniel Rosenboom Quintet, playing alto saxophone on the 2014 jazz-metal album ''Fire Keeper'',<ref>Chris Barton, [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-ms-daniel-rosenbooms-fire-keeper-review-20140505-story.html “Daniel Rosenboom’s ‘Fire Keeper’ full of imagination,”] ''Los Angeles Times'', May 5, 2014.</ref> and on Rosenboom's 2015 ''Astral Transference'' as part of the octet.<ref>S. Victor Aaron, [http://somethingelsereviews.com/2015/02/01/daniel-rosenboom-astral-transference-seven-dreams-2015/ “Daniel Rosenboom – Astral Transference and Seven Dreams,”] Something Else, February 1, 2015.</ref> He played woodwinds as part of a 22-piece chamber ensemble on the 2015 album ''Three Kids Music'' by Gurrisonic Orchestra,<ref>George W. Harris, [http://www.jazzweekly.com/2015/10/jose-gurrias-gurrisonic-orchestra-three-kids-music/ “Jose Gurria’s Gurrisonic Orchestra: Three Kids Music,”] ''Jazz Weekly'', October 29, 2015.</ref> and has also collaborated with guitarist Nels Cline, woodwind player Vinny Golia, big band leader Alan Ferber, Charlie Haden, Wayne Shorter and Joe LaBarbera.<ref name="famjuly25"/><ref>[http://www.orendarecords.com/the-gavin-templeton-trio/ “The Gavin Templeton Trio,”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216050505/http://www.orendarecords.com/the-gavin-templeton-trio/ |date=2016-02-16 }} Orenda Records. Accessed February 12, 2016.</ref><ref name="angelcity">[http://angelcityjazz.com/artists/gavin-templeton-trio “Gavin Templeton Trio,”] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216153044/http://angelcityjazz.com/artists/gavin-templeton-trio |date=2016-02-16 }} angelcityjazz.com. Accessed February 12, 2016.</ref> Templeton performed as a featured artist at the 2014 Angel City Jazz Festival,<ref>Chris Barton, [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-angel-city-jazz-festival-preview-20140916-story.html “Angel City Jazz Festival lineup looks to past, present and future,”] ''Los Angeles Times'', September 16, 2014.</ref> and with the Daniel Rosenboom Quintet at the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival.<ref name="angelcity"/>
==Discography== ===Albums=== {| class="wikitable" !rowspan="1"|Year !rowspan="1"|Title |- |2012 |''Asterperious Special'' * {{small|By: Gavin Templeton}} * {{small|Released: September 18, 2012}} * {{small|Label: Nine Winds Records}} * {{small|Formats: CD, digital download}} |- |2013 |''In Series'' * {{small|By: Gavin Templeton}} * {{small|Released: October 8, 2013}} * {{small|Label: Nine Winds Records}} * {{small|Formats: CD, digital download}} |- |2014 |''Some Spinning, Some At Rest '' * {{small|By: Gavin Templeton Trio}} * {{small|Released: August 1, 2014}} * {{small|Label: Orenda Records}} * {{small|Formats: CD, digital download}} |}
===Appears on=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! style="width:55px;"| Year ! style="width:255px;"| Album ! style="width:290px;"| Artist ! style="width:255px;"| Credits |- | rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;"|2008 | ''Visions and Nightmares'' | Dr. Mint | Alto saxophone |- | ''Live 2008'' | Plotz! | Alto saxophone |- | rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;"|2009 | ''Vinny Golia’s Friday Nite Band'' | Vinny Golia | Alto saxophone |- | ''A New Symphony'' | Dr. Mint | Alto saxophone |- | ''Book of Riddles'' | Daniel Rosenboom | Saxophones |- | ''How Much Better if Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims'' | David Rosenboom | Alto saxophone |- | ''The Kid'' | Plotz! | Saxophones |- | rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;"|2010 | ''Abstract Realism'' | Peter Epstein & Idée Fixe | Saxophones |- | ''Dirty Baby'' | Nels Cline | Alto saxophone |- | rowspan=3 style="text-align:center;"|2011 | ''Abstractions and Retrocasualties'' | The Vinny Golia Sextet | Alto saxophone |- | ''Low and Inside'' | The Vinny Golia Octet | Alto saxophone |- | ''Fallen Angeles'' | Daniel Rosenboom | Alto saxophone |- | rowspan=4 style="text-align:center;"|2013 | ''Ritual'' | Dr. Mint | Woodwinds |- | ''Shades of Truth'' | Trevor Anderies | Alto saxophone |- | ''Unsayable Absence: Live at the Blue Whale'' | Daniel Rosenboom | Woodwinds |- | ''Ritual'' | David Dominique | Alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute |- | rowspan=2 style="text-align:center;"|2014 | ''Fire Keeper'' | The Daniel Rosenboom Quintet | Saxophones, bass clarinet |- | ''Farewell'' | Jon Armstrong Jazz Orchestra | Woodwinds |- | rowspan=5 style="text-align:center;"|2015 | ''Prisms, Cycles, Leaps'' | Derrick Spiva Jr. & Bridge to Everywhere | Woodwinds |- | ''Kingsize Sessions'' | Dr. Mint | Woodwinds |- | ''Astral Transference'' | Daniel Rosenboom | Alto saxophone |- | ''Three Kids Music'' | Gurrisonic Orchestra | Woodwinds |- | ''Jazziz on Disc, Vol. 5'' | (Jazziz magazine compilation) | Alto saxophone |- | rowspan=1 style="text-align:center;"|2016 |''Lovers'' |Nels Cline |Clarinet, Alto saxophone |- | rowspan=1 style="text-align:center;"|2018 |''Thelonious Sphere Monk'' |Mast (Tim Conley) | Saxophone<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=L.A. Record|title=Track premiere: Mast "Nutty" (F. Makaya Mccraven, Dan Rosenboom, Gavin Templeton)|date=January 18, 2018|url=http://larecord.com/listen-2/2018/01/18/track-premiere-mast-nutty-f-makaya-mccraven-dan-rosenboom-gavin-templeton|access-date=September 8, 2019|archive-date=June 13, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613090849/http://larecord.com/listen-2/2018/01/18/track-premiere-mast-nutty-f-makaya-mccraven-dan-rosenboom-gavin-templeton|url-status=dead}}</ref> |- |}
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links== * [https://gavintempletonmusic.com/ Official website]
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