Review: Jazz Times Magazine
A Mind for the Scenery (Origin), from Portland, Ore., woodwind player Tim Jensen, offers a potpourri of styles, from funk to funereal to free, and there's not a dull moment on it. Its fine soloists tend to favor the mainstream post-Coltrane modal/hard bop approach when not taking the occasional free-jazz flight. But Jensen's arrangements of his own compositions, along with "On Green Dolphin Street" and Bob Dylan's "My Back Pages," demonstrate a quirky imagination that keeps the interest high. His chart on the former tune, in which the melody is doubled in the piccolo and bass, is but one case in point. The Dylan song begins chorale style, with a dissonant horn choir underneath the bass clarinet, before shifting into tempo for the solos. And Jensen's "Rusty Rayburn and Piggy Lee" turns out to be an altered blues of 11 bars only. Although it features a nice small "big band" sound (augmented at times by voices), it also finds a place for some distant shouts and a canonlike section superimposed over an ostinato bass line.

Review: Berman Music Review (by Tom Ineck)
Like much of the bountiful fruit harvested at Origin Records in Portland, Ore., Tim Jensen’s “A Mind for the Scenery” challenges the listener from the get-go.

Jensen is a composer and reed player of eclectic tastes, versatility, technique and audacious creativity. He also is an arranger and a bandleader who knows how to surround himself with like-minded musicians capable of equal audacity. Take for example the opener, “Sausage,” a squiggly tune pushed through all sorts of musical permutations by Jensen on tenor, Rob Scheps on soprano sax, Paul Mazzio on flugelhorn and Jeff Uusitalo on trombone. read more ...

Review: All Music Guide (by Adam Greenberg)
From Tim Jensen, a sax player roving between the two areas of influence of Detroit and the Northwest (Portland to be exact), comes this, his second album. It's an interesting set, largely of original compositions. The range covered on the album makes it rather difficult to categorize, specifically as one style or another, but the bulk could be placed into a post-bop section, or the catch-all term of modern jazz. read more ...