Kris Tiner has been played on NTS in shows including James Massiah, featured first on 12 September 2015. Songs played include Ritual.

Kris Tiner is a trumpet player, composer, and educator active on the West Coast jazz and creative music scene for over 20 years. His playing has been described as “extraordinarily inventive” in Signal to Noise Magazine, “perfectly suited to the moment” in DownBeat, and the LA Weekly states that “trumpeter Kris Tiner can turn barbed wire to beauty.” Tiner’s compositions explore connections between improvisational music traditions and systemic practices, blending jazz roots with multiple streams of contemporary music. His music has been performed on five continents, his 70+ recordings have been enthusiastically reviewed in the international jazz press, and he has been recognized with awards from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, Montalvo Arts Center, the John F. Kennedy Center, the International Association for Jazz Education, the Kern County Music Educators’ Association, and the Levan Center for the Humanities. In addition to interdisciplinary projects involving dance, spoken word, visual art, film and animation, he has recorded music for radio, television, and motion picture scores, and his trumpet playing has been heard on MTV, NBC, PBS, and Comedy Central.