scott tinkler
Selected press quotes
"…this trio is more intense and exciting than almost anything else coming out of America"
John Clare on "Sofa King" Sydney morning Herald
"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. Tinkler’s trumpet is an open wound to his soul.....that braveness is matched by a technique and an imagination able to plumb visceral and gripping emotional depths and highs. He does this with a tortured, gleeful maniacal ease.
Craig Pearce, Drum Media
"Scott Tinkler brings his trumpet into the fray- a modern sound unafraid of new territory. He is different, and the music the better for it."
John Barrett ALL ABOUT JAZZ
"Tinklers’ career as player and composer is already beyond the emulation phase, he makes music that wells from within, so that when the flood gates are opened, the torrent of sharp, bright notes are loaded with soul."
Peter Jordan Sydney Morning Herald.
"How come I can’t get it through your fat heads that Scott Tinkler is one of the most important musicians we have produced, and that his trio is perhaps the most exciting jazz band around?"
John Clare, RHYTHMS
"…an album that will be seen in the future as one of the main achievements of this period. Tinkler is an important talent as trumpeter and composer…"
John Clare Sydney Morning Herald.
" (Tinkler) unleashed his daring ferocity with extraordinary fluency, bent note and bursting tones straining against an equally hard-driving bass and drums."
Leon Gettler, " The Age."
"trumpeter Scott Tinkler never lets you down…his band produced a performance of conviction and passion- hallmarks of Tinkler’s own playing."
"Tinkler is such a strong and assured improviser…At his best he unleashed simply astonishing streams of invention."
"a bold composer with a particular interest in the dramatic implications of shifting rhythms."
John Shand "The Sydney Morning Herald."
"Scott Tinkler plays the trumpet like his life depends on it. This is urgent, in-yer-face music, daring and original.
Peter Jordan " MZ"