Tom Vincent - Piano

Marc Meader - Drums

Leigh Barker - Double Bass

BLOOD RED - RELEASED MARCH 2008

Well You Needn't - Monk, Resolution - Coltrane

All other compositions - Vincent

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Tom Vincent has been a regular on the Tasmanian jazz scene for many years. Here, with Marc Meader on drums and Leigh Barker on bass, is a set recorded for ABC Classic FM's Jazztrack program last year. Influenced by Thelonius Monk, and with touches of Ahmad Jamal, this is a very sophisticated ensemble that plays tight, rhythmic modern jazz. With the exception of a track composed by John Coltrane and one by Monk, the other numbers are Vincent's work. It is an ensemble that deserves plenty of airplay around Australia.

- Greg Barns, Tasmanian Mercury May 2009

Tom's chords have a great polarity, from the dark heavy changes to the bright crisp clusters just as the lyrical polarity of his creative melodies. Tom's writing, especially his ballad work is quite beautiful and has the depth and flow of the river Don. As for his feel, expression and sensitivity, well it's just magnificent, I actually cried whilst listening to his ballad work. Feel and sensitivity are of fundamental importance, you either are born with this so necessary talent or you're not. You can't learn this God given gift and Tom most certainly has it all.
- Serge Ermoll ~ Australian Jazz Pianist and Commentator Legend, May 2009

VINCENT/MEADER TRIO 12 Jazz Classics

...stunning fluidity and playfulness and a readiness to cover the waterfront of jazz history. ..the witticism and capability had everyone chuckling as another melody appeared unexpectedly. And it was not just masses of tunes, but also massive fluidity over all parts of the music: rhythms moved all over the place. Polyrhythms between hands, bass line triplets and delayed lines ... Melodies that were dissonantly sideshifted or restructured lines with the same form but altered intervals and pitches. A pianist noted that Tom has a big hand, so could play big, unusual chords in his left hand, but they were extensions and colours that we were hearing, as well as intervals. ..dynamic and expressive and playful. A wonderful night

- Eric Pozza, Canberra Jazz Blog, review of Trio gig 12th June 2009

full article - http://canberrajazz.blogspot.com/2009/06/exclusively-for-my-friends.html

This trio is a breath of fresh air

- Dave Ades

I recently attended a mini-concert at the Paris Cat in Melbourne August 2008 given by Tom Vincent on a tour from his base in Hobart Tasmania. I rank Tom as the most outstanding piano player Australia (take a cheer Aussie) has produced. The tendency of reviewers to allude to technique (pianos particularly) in their appraisal of a recording or concert is not in my view the main component of a Jazz player's performance. For this reviewer, the tour de force is IMPROVISATIONAL ABILITY. When I hear someone play the piano, looking like he means it and sets up a constant flow of ideas that literally blind me with virtuosity plus, the carry through to perpetuate such imaginative work, then, and only then do I make such, you may think extravagant claims about an artiste. Tom Vincent must be confronting a career of great satisfaction, but wait, there's more... so will the listener to his work. Trust me, On all this.

- Keith Hounslow, October 2008

Pianist Tom Vincent holds your attention through all his considerable range of approaches. Vincent displays an old world charm, leading the trio into a supple dance ... ranges form the spare swing of an Ahmad Jamahl to a formidable, dark, continuous running development .. that can recall Lennie Tristano or Herbie Nichols...and Vincent is an unusual stylist in his own right.

- John Clare, Sydney Morning Herald

Tom Vincent's recording debut of jazz classics showcases a remarkable talent. Vincent is full of surprise and inventiveness; his way of playing has you hankering for the next note and smiling to yourself when it arrives. He can tip-toe through a tune, dripping melody with spare, treble notes but never sounding merely pretty, or race away with insouciance. He is a delight.

- Shane Nichols, Australian Financial Review

Tom Vincent and Marc Meader have been playing together since 1988 and you sure can hear it! They play together very well - there seems to be no competition - it swings and they work together like a well oiled machine...this trio is one of the best around.

- from the Amsterdam NTB magazine