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Scott Tinkler

Australian trumpeter Scott Tinkler has been performing professionally since 1983 and is well known for his many brilliant incarnations as an ensemble player, recording and touring with such groups as the Australian Art Orchestra, Mark Simmonds Freeboppers, The Paul Grabowsky Quintet and The Dale Barlow Quintet as well as with international artists such as Mark Helias, Joe Lovano, Betty Carter, Branford Marsalis, Han Bennink, Billy Harper, Arthur Blythe, Cindy Blackman, Guru Kaaraikkudi Mani etc.

It was, however, his debut as a bandleader in 1993 that really brought him to the attention of both the media and the public. His Melbourne based Scott Tinkler Quartet with Grabowsky, Rex and Lambie received rave reviews for live performances and the quartet’s two CD’s The Back Of My Head and Hop To The Cow both received ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Awards) nominations.

With a move to Sydney Scott’s next project, The Scott Tinkler Trio, with Simon Barker and Adam Armstrong, continued the tradition of excellence with inspired recordings and performances of Tinkler’s strong original music. The trios much awaited ARIA nominated CD Dance Of Delulian was released in October 96 and established Scott as a powerful stylist and composer; not only Australia’s leading trumpet player but a major force in contemporary music.

In 1997 Scott received an Australia Council grant to tour Europe and America. This venture culminated in the recording of the CD Sofa King at New York’s Knitting Factory. On completion of this tour Tinkler spent the next 18 months in Europe performing, recording and teaching before returning to Australia where his Trio’s third CD Shrike Like was released in 1999.

In April 2003 Scott joined his long time associate Paul Grabowsky on a trip to New York to record an album of Paul's original music with Branford Marsalis, Joe Lovano, Ed Schuller and Jeff “Tain” Watts. Tales Of Time and Space has now been released on the Warner label to stunning reviews, many highlighting Scott’s stellar contribution to Paul’s music.

With his recent move back to Melbourne, Scott is spending much of his time composing and performing with his Trio as well as providing a unique presence in various Australian new music ensembles including Elision, Hydromus Krysogast and the Australian Art Orchestra.

Scott is now lecturing at the Victorian College of the Arts and Monash University and has given master classes at the Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane Conservatoriums, Southern Cross University and the Hong Kong Polytechnique University. Scott was also a guest in New York at the “New School of Jazz” and when in Europe gives master classes at the Den Haag Royal and Rotterdam Conservatoriums in the Netherlands.

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Interview

Scott Tinkler: Trumpet Down Under

Read "Scott Tinkler: Trumpet Down Under" reviewed by Ludwig vanTrikt


Bassist/composer Lindsey Horner recently said, “I think one thing that has really changed in the past quarter century is that the music has become so broad, so truly international and genre-encompassing that the days when jazz was one very definable, finite thing are well and truly gone." These remarks also serve to introduce this interview with the Australian trumpeter Scott Tinkler. The recent emergence of a small cadre of Australian jazz artists has yet to gather the notice of, say, ...

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Album Review

The Antripodean Collective: Funcall

Read "Funcall" reviewed by Henry Smith


The Antripodean Collective is a quartet of four Australians seeking their own niche in the world of freely improvised jazz. Relinquishing dissonant pyrotechnics in favor of carefully placed event-driven moments, the group nods toward the AACM's spatial framework while still managing to carve out its own place in the improvisational landscape.

The unit's instrumental makeup is one rarely heard, and the music is all the more effective for it. John Rodgers' violin is capable of melding ...

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Multiple Reviews

Scott Tinkler: The Massacre of the Ego, The Garden of Forking Paths, Backwards & Lost Thoughts

Read "Scott Tinkler: The Massacre of the Ego, The Garden of Forking Paths, Backwards & Lost Thoughts" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


The Antripodean Collective The Massacre of the Egos Extreme 2008 Marc Hannaford with Scott Tinkler, Ken Edie & Philip Rex The Garden of Forking Paths Extreme 2007 Scott Tinkler Backwards Extreme 2007 Scott Tinkler / Simon Barker Lost Thoughts Kimnara 2008

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Album Review

Scott Tinkler Trio: Shrike Like

Read "Shrike Like" reviewed by AAJ Staff


My dictionary defines a shrike as one of a type of birds “that have a strong notched bill hooked at the tip, feed chiefly on insects, and often impale their prey on thorns." Now it's nearly certain that Australian trumpeter Scott Tinkler had the cry of the bird (and not its lifestyle) in mind when he titled his third trio record. But there's also something sharp and predatory about Shrike Like. The stark black-and-white cover of the disc features Tinkler ...

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Scott Tinkler: Sofa King

Read "Sofa King" reviewed by Robert Spencer


In the old days a trumpet quartet on a record date was unusual. Miles Davis recorded a quartet disc, but he more often preferred to augment his group sound with a saxophonist. Clark Terry recorded in a quartet with Thelonious Monk, and Freddie Hubbard with Herbie Hancock, but such dates are generally rare. (All right, I won't neglect to mention Lester Bowie's flying-trapeze duos.) Maybe it has something to do with the trumpet's perceived timbral and pyrotechnical limitations, but, in ...

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Scott Tinkler: Sofa King

Read "Sofa King" reviewed by AAJ Staff


It’s a big test for a horn player: lead a trio with drums and bass behind you. You are the melody, the conceptual force: if the music is boring, the blame falls on you. It’s a challenge worthy of the very best – and typically the horn is a saxophone. It has a wide range and the notes can come fast – for another horn, the task is daunting. Scott Tinkler brings his trumpet into the fray – a modern ...

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Interview

Trumpeter Scott Tinkler Interviewed at AAJ

Trumpeter Scott Tinkler Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz

Bassist/composer Lindsey Horner recently said, “I think one thing that has really changed in the past quarter century is that the music has become so broad, so truly international and genre-encompassing that the days when jazz was one very definable, finite thing are well and truly gone." These remarks also serve to introduce this interview with the Australian trumpeter Scott Tinkler. The recent emergence of a small cadre of Australian jazz artists has yet to gather the notice of, say, ...

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Scott Tinkler/Mark Helias Duo in NYC on September 28th

Scott Tinkler/Mark Helias Duo in NYC on September 28th

Source: All About Jazz

Sunday, September 28th at 5pm To open the new concert season at Hudson View Gardens (HVG) under the shiny new moniker Sunday Concerts at The Lounge, and making a rare appearance in New York, we have one of Down Under's foremost highly regarded jazz trumpeters--Scott Tinkler. The Aussie has played with Joe Lovano, Cindy Blackman and many others, including Downtown bass veteran Mark Helias (who has played with groups of such jazz legends as Ed Blackwell and Dewey Redman). Tinkler ...

"Tinkler has the best tone, technique, articulation and inventiveness of any Australian trumpeter I've ever heard... For sheer bursting excitement there can be few anywhere to match him." --John Clare (Sydney Morning Herald)

"Above all there was the trumpet of Tinkler. He ripped at the harmonic fabric of Angel with tiny, impossibly poignant cries and on Circle of Trust alternated blasts of white light with great smears of sonic emotion.

This was Australian jazz at its best." --John Shand (Sydney Morning Herald) May 26, 2004

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Funcall

Extreme (Australia)
2009

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Backwards

Stash Records
2007

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Shrike Like

Self Produced
2000

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Sofa King

Buzz Records
1999

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Lost Thoughts

Stash Records
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