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[7/12/10]

Big Band show!

Monday August 16, 8pm @ Typhoon, $10 entry, FREE parking.
Typhoon 3221 Donald Douglas Loop South (Santa Monica Airport)
310 390 6565

Despicable Me, which I conducted the score for has just opened at number 1. I have never seen so many posters around LA for one movie, I guess they did something. I have just finished a few commissions and some more charts for the Metropole Orchestra. In the next few months I am working on 3 big games, none of which I can mention by name………

[4/21/10]
If anyone has been to a movie in the last 2 months, I bet I conducted at least one of the scores! Things have been really busy. Recent releases that I have conducted include Hot Tub Time Machine, Date Movie, Percy Jackson and Dear John. I just finished work on Despicable Me and the season finale to House.
In the game world, I recently orchestrated and conducted the score for a new Pirates of the Caribbean game for composer Ron Fish and Disney. I am about to start work on another Sony game, I will be doing some symphonic sound design first up then orchestrating and conducting Jim Dooley's score. On the arranging front I just finished a project for Finnish singer Tarja Turunen and my first chart for the Metropole Orchestra in Holland for Jon Faddis and Steve Turre. I was not at the concert but it must have gone over OK as they just asked me to do some more, this time for Chaka Kahn.

The next month sees me doing a bit of travel-
May 5 - Sydney, Australia, World Premiere of my newest big band work - Conceivilization. The work was commissioned by the Sydney Conservatorium and is being performed as part of the ISCM World New Music Days
May 20 - Jazz Education Network Conference, St Louis, Opening night concert. I will be performing my Grammy nominated piece "Counting to Infinity" with the Army Blues Big Band.
May 21, 3pm. I will be presenting my lecture- Breaking the mold: Taking your big band writing to the next level

[1/21/10]
Happy New Year to everyone. December was pretty crazy with sessions for Percy Jackson, Wolfman and the A-Team trailer. I had a great time on Percy, Chris Beck asked me to arrange his themes for the end titles. I got to conducted it with a 98 piece band, all free time, no clicks or picture to worry about. I will post a link once the soundtrack is out.
I am proud to announce that I have been invited to present a lecture at the inaugural Jazz Education Network Conference in St Louis, MI, in May. This is the group that is replacing IAJE. The lecture is entitled Breaking the mold: Taking your big band writing to the next level. I will talk about some of the things that I do in my music to make it different and how they can be applied to other pieces. I am also working on getting some pieces performed and may sit in with a big band on the main concert, more details to come.
Right now I am working on the commission for the Sydney Conservatorium. It is going well, all sketched, now just fleshing it out. It is going to be the first movement of a new trilogy.

Big Band show!

Monday March 29, 8pm @ Typhoon, FREE entry, FREE parking.
Typhoon 3221 Donald Douglas Loop South (Santa Monica Airport)
310 390 6565

[12/05/09]

BREAKING NEWS! I have been nominated for a Grammy

- Best Instrumental Composition for Counting to Infinity. You can hear the track if you go to www.TimDaviesBigBand.com. It will play automatically. I am trying to celebrate when I can, but work is rather hectic right now. I am done with God of War 3. I recently conducted Christophe Beck's score for Date Night, starring Tina Fey and Steve Carrel. Currently I am working on Percy Jackson and the Olympians, also for Beck and then after that it is onto the Wolfman with Paul Haslinger. I also recently did some work for AR Rahman for a presidential gala in Washington.

[10/05/09]
I have recently finished the first round of sessions for God of War 3 at Skywalker Ranch. It was a hectic week, having been in London for a wedding, I arrived in San Francisco Sunday night and then conducted a triple session on Monday. That did nothing for the cold that was coming on. I ended up having to get a lift back to LA as my head was too stuffed up to fly. I think I can now say what one of the movies I am working on with Salaam Remi is. It does not seem to be a big secret, I read about the 'secret' artist we are working with in an Australian newspaper! It is Sex and the City 2. Will wait a little longer to say what charts I did as the titles have not been leaked yet. I also had some cool conducting gigs recently: Sims 3 (Expansion Pack) for Steve Jablosnky, Couples Retreat for AR Rahman and Dear John for Deborah Lurie. Sony brought me in to help composer Normand Corbeil with some last minute orchestrations on a new game called Heavy Rain. Next up I have a few movies to conduct for Chris Beck and some more God of War sessions.

Big Band show!

Monday November 23, 8pm @ Typhoon, FREE entry, FREE parking.
Typhoon 3221 Donald Douglas Loop South (Santa Monica Airport)
310 390 6565
Our guest for the night will be Jim Bianco

[8/17/09]
A lot of people said they needed me in August, I did not believe them, turns out they really did need me. As well as ongoing work on God of War 3 for Sony, I am working on Ratchet and Clank for Boris Salchow and several arrangements for producer Salaam Remi to be featured in some big movies, can't mention titles yet, throw in a conducting gig or 2 and I guess I am busy. The AFM has featured me in another article, this one is about the score for the GI Joe video game. You can find it here.

[7/15/09]
The International Musician, the magazine of the American Federation of Musicians, has recently published a story about me. You can find it here.

[6/14/09]
I am pleased to announce that I have just been commissioned by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music to write a big band work. The piece will be premiered next year at the ISCM World Music days which are being held in Australia for the first time. I used to submit pieces every year and never once would they play one and now they are going to pay me to write a new piece, I guess some things just take time.
I recently completed work on the game Lost Planet 2 for Jamie Christopherson. We had a 95 piece orchestra at Fox and made some serious noise. Next up is God of War 3. For those who do not know of it, google it, it is a huge Sony game and the score for GOW2, which I also orchestrated and conducted, won lots of awards. I also noticed that Prototype, Infamous and the Sims 3 are call now out. I orchestrated and conducted Prototype, did SSD for Infamous and conducted The Sims 3. I have a few more library tracks that have just come out with X-ray Dog. You can hear some of them on the music page.

DIALMENTIA is out! Get it at Origin Records or on itunes

The new www.TimDaviesBigBand.com is up and ready to go! It is now the place to go for band info. There are tracks from all our recordings and scores to check out. Many thanks go to Paulina [Puniaf.com] and Ted for putting the site together for me, also thanks to Paulina for the great photos.

News Archive

[5/1/09]
I survived my trip to Australia, the bands were all great and we had a huge crowd at the Melbourne release party. Now I am getting ready for the Bakersfield Jazz Festival and our launch party at Typhoon and catching up on all the work I was supposed to do while I was partying in Oz! Hard at work on Lost Planet 2 right now and then once that is done I am onto God of War 3 for a few months. While in Oz I also managed to squeeze in some choir charts for Cris Velasco and Mike Reagan for a game called Darksiders and another transcription for the new Fox show Glee.

[4/25/09]
I am about to jump on the plane back to Australia! It is going to be a full on trip. The gigs are listed below but I am also doing lectures and taking bands at QLD con, VCA, AFTRAS, Sydney and Melbourne Army and Sydney Con. I am also working with several school bands in Melbourne who will then open the show for us. Blackburn will premiere a new piece "Sarahbande". As soon as I get back it is right back to work orchestrating the Lost Planet 2 game and then a big game for Sony to orchestrate and conduct. More details at a later date on that one.

[3/24/09]
March already. Was thinking it may have been a slow year but not so far. I just did some arrangements for Cee-lo Green and producer Salaam Remi. I thought Cee-lo sounded a bit like the guy from Gnarls Barkley, I forgot where I was for a minute, turns out he is the guy from Gnarls Barkley! I had some fun conducting an 87 piece orchestra last week at Fox for Stephen Trask's score to Cirque du Freak for Universal. I also did some orchestrations for Alex Heffes and Mark Kilian on State of Play and Marco Beltrami on Repo Mambo. I just finished a commission for the Loma Linda Academy and am currently working on one for Blackburn High in Melbourne.

[12/15/08]
It is almost the end of the year and I still have not finished the record, that is pretty bad. I have a good reason though, people keep paying me lots of money to do other things! As usual it has been an eclectic mix of projects. Pushing Daisies is in it's 2nd season. As well as orchestrating and conducting you can sometimes hear some jazz on the show and I either wrote it or arranged it. I also had some fun doing some barbershop music for a recent ep. I recently did another bunch of charts for producer Salaam Remi, that is always fun, he sends me a bed and I go to town with an orchestra over the top of it. I did a package of Symphonic Sound Design for the Sony game InFamous and conducted some strings for David Archuleta's new record. My tracks for Extreme Music and X-Ray Dog (track here) are out and last week I orchestrated and conducted the score to the new Monsters Versus Aliens game. But coolest of all was that I got a call to help out with the orchestrations for David Hirschfelder's score for Baz Luhrman's new film Australia, being from Australia, I just had to work on it!