{{Short description|American jazz saxophonist (born 1965)}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Tim Warfield | image = 24 Festival Internacional de Jazz de Punta del Este 2020 - DOMINGO 5 - 200105-1141-jikatu.jpg | caption = Warfield in 2020 | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1965|7|2}} | birth_place = York, Pennsylvania, U.S. | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician, educator | instrument = Tenor saxophone | years_active = 1990s–present | label = Criss Cross Jazz | website = {{URL|https://timwarfieldmusic.com}} }} '''Timothy Reginald Warfield Jr.''' (born July 2, 1965, in York, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
==Early life== Warfield picked up alto saxophone when he was nine years old, and switched to tenor when he was a teenager at William Penn Senior High School. After two years at Howard University he became a jazz musician full-time.<ref name=bucks>{{cite news |url=https://www.buckslocalnews.com/entertainment/saxophonist-brings-sweet-n-soulful-sound-to-jazz-night-at-the-michener/article_782361cb-2b7a-590f-89f5-ba88337fada2.html |title=Saxophonist brings 'sweet 'n' soulful' sound to Jazz Night at the Michener |date=April 6, 2011 |work=Bucks Local News |access-date=September 22, 2021 }}</ref>
==Career== He worked with Marlon Jordan, the Tough Young Tenors, and Jazz Futures in the early 1990s, and played with Shirley Scott in the house band for Bill Cosby's show ''You Bet Your Life''.<ref>"Tim Warfield". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.</ref> Later in the 1990s he worked with Jimmy Smith, Christian McBride, and Nicholas Payton;<ref name="bucks" /> other associations include work with Donald Byrd, Michele Rosewoman, Dizzy Gillespie, Isaac Hayes, Charles Fambrough, Orrin Evans, Joey Defrancesco,<ref name="bucks" /><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://occhimagazine.com/in-conversation-with-trumpeter-terell-stafford-and-saxophonist-tim-warfield/ |title=In Conversation with Trumpeter Terell Stafford and Saxophonist Tim Warfield |date= June 3, 2021 |magazine=Occhi Magazine |access-date=September 22, 2021 }}</ref> and Danilo Perez.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
Warfield is a member of the Terell Stafford quintet.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/night-life/terell-stafford-quintet |title=Terell Stafford Quintet |magazine=The New Yorker |access-date=September 22, 2021 }}</ref> He is an assistant professor with the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boyer.temple.edu/faculty/jazz-studies-faculty |title=Jazz Studies Faculty |website=Temple University |date=23 August 2018 |access-date=September 22, 2021 }}</ref> as well as an artist in residence at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Warfield is a member of The Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz non-profit organization, and Governor Tom Wolf appointed him as a member of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in 2018.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jophilly.org/orchestra/tim-warfield/ |title=Tim Warfield |website=Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia |access-date=September 22, 2021 }}</ref>
==Discography== * ''A Cool Blue'', (Criss Cross Jazz, 1995), with Terell Stafford, Cyrus Chestnut, Tarus Mateen, and Clarence Penn * ''A Whisper in the Midnight'' (Criss Cross Jazz, 1996), with Stafford, Stefon Harris, Chestnut, Mateen, and Penn * ''Gentle Warrior'' (Criss Cross Jazz, 1998), with Chestnut, Mateen, Penn, Stafford, and Nicholas Payton * ''Jazz Is...'' (Criss Cross Jazz, 2002), with Penn, Chestnut, Payton, Harris, and Mateen * ''One for Shirley'' (Criss Cross Jazz, 2008) * ''A Sentimental Journey'' (Criss Cross Jazz, 2010) * ''Tim Warfield's Jazzy Christmas'' (Undaunted Music, 2012) * ''Eye of the Beholder'' (Criss Cross Jazz, 2013) * ''Inspire Me'' (CD Baby, 2013) * ''Spherical'' (Criss Cross Jazz, 2015), dedicated to Thelonious Sphere Monk * ''Jazzland'' (Criss Cross Jazz, 2018)
===As sideman=== * Nicholas Payton, ''Dear Louis'' (Verve, 2001) * Stefon Harris, ''The Grand Unification Theory'' (Blue Note, 2003) * Nicholas Payton, ''Sonic Trance'' (Warner Bros., 2003)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.timwarfieldmusic.com/ Official website]
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