Tim Ries

Tim Ries is an American saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader and music educator. He is a professor of jazz studies at the University of Toronto. His work is tagged as jazz, while his composing and arranging range across rock, jazz, classical, experimental, ethno and fusions of these areas. He also works with flute. His releases include System Shock (1995), Universal Spirits (1997), Alternate Side (2001), The Rolling Stones Project (2005), Stones World: The Rolling Stones Project II (2008), Rajamailla (2012) and Climate Change (2014). The Rolling Stones Project consists of jazz arrangements of Rolling Stones music across two albums, released in 2005 and 2008.