Empathy, by Tim Lin

Empathy

by Tim Lin

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Alberto Gustaffson there are a lot of jazz records out there but not all of them good and definitely a very small amount of them are as good as this one from Tim Lin Favorite track: Speak Low.

The Serial Chiller this is absolutely amazing, first 10 seconds of the very first song and you are into another dimension of noir bars filled with smoke and adventure. A true power of music, bravo! Favorite track: If I Should Lose You.

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Tim Lin's sophomore recording featuring Andy LaVerne, Jay Anderson, and Billy Drummond

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	1.	If I Should Lose You 07:28
	2.	Table Steaks 06:36
	3.	Namely You 03:03
	4.	Fourth Right 06:58
	5.	Waltz for Debby 07:43
	6.	Dolphin Dance 07:28
	7.	I Wish I Knew 05:59
	8.	Speak Low 06:25

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Tim Lin's sophomore album featuring Andy LaVerne, Jay Anderson, and Billy Drummond.

The repertoire Tim Lin has chosen for this, his second album, seems straightforward enough: a few tried-and-true standards, a couple contrafacts, two jazz classics, and one adventurous composition
written by the estimable pianist Andy LaVerne. A young musician can sink his teeth into such a set list – and Lin certainly does that.
The fact that this collection of songs also sums up Lin’s artistic evolution, with clearly identiable markers along the way? Bonus. Lin originally intended this album to provide the second chapter
of the musical diary he began in 2022 with Romance in Formosa, his debut album. The title of that disc connects his art with the events in his life. Lin is rst-generation Taiwanese-American – his parents grew
up in Taipei – and at the time of that album, he had started dating a woman, living in Taiwan, with whom he’d reconnected out of the blue. (Taiwan was originally known as Formosa in the western world; hence
the album title.) In the time since, the California native relocated east, and he considers Empathy a reaction of that move.

“When I first got to New York,” he says, “it was a really rough patch for me, getting acquainted with a new environment.” (No kidding: going from the California burbs to buzzy Brooklyn is like trading
a wine spritzer for a triple espresso.) He had to establish new ties, nd gigs, learn the scene, navigate his intercontinental relationship – all while COVID still raged in the city. As he worked to determine his place in this new order, Lin also started imagining himself in others’ shoes, and he gravitated toward songs“that have a more introspective feeling than on my rst record,” he allows. “I guess Empathy is like a soundtrack of my move to New York.”

So the story that Lin began with Romance in Formosa continues here. And as you’ll learn, storytelling is one of Lin’s strengths. His best solos create a scenario, trace a narrative, and keep the listener engaged, either barreling along like a downhill racer – as on the cheery and buoyant “Speak Low” – or unspooling with the leisurely insistence of a toy top (“Waltz for Debby”). He tells these stories in a “voice” of resonant power: a saxophone timbre both immense and chiseled, statuesque but malleable – an almost physically tangible sound that would give even “Baby Shark” a sense of purpose. Lin has absorbed this part of the legacy, along with the rest, in the course of adding his own voice to that heritage.

On Empathy, he winningly taps into the emotional core of the music that propels him.

NEIL TESSER
Grammy Award Winning Jazz Journalist and Host

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released May 19, 2023

Recorded December 2022 at Oktaven Studios, Mount Vernon NY
Produced by Bob Sheppard

Andy LaVerne - piano
Jay Anderson - bass
Billy Drummond - drums

Engineer: Edwin Huet
Mixing Engineer: Talley Sherwood
Mastering Engineer: Steve Fallone/Greg Calbi
Cover Photos: Kaori Suzuki
Studio Photos: Chris Drukker
Videography: Steven Wang

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Tim Lin New York, New York

Currently residing in New York City, Tim is an active jazz artist & freelance musician, educator, author, and composer. His debut album "Romance in Formosa" produced by Bob Sheppard will be released late April / Early May 2022 featuring Andy LaVerne on piano, Billy Drummond on drums, and Jay Anderson on bass ... more

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