Tom Skinner (jazz musician)

With Sons of Kemet and saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings at the INNtöne Jazzfestival 2018

Tom Skinner (born January 26, 1980 in London ) is a British jazz drummer. Skinner began playing the drums at the age of nine and attended workshops at Weekend Arts College in London between 1993 and 1996 . In 1998 he became a member of Gary Crosby's Tomorrow’s Warriors , where he worked for four years with Soweto Kinch , Dave Okumu , Andrew McCormac and Tom Herbert and performed at the London Jazz Café .

Also in 1998 he became a member of the Denys Baptiste Quartet , with which he recorded two albums. He also worked with the quartets of Byron Wallen , Ingrid Laubrock and Martin Speake , with the singer Cleveland Watkiss , the hip-hop group Task Force , with Jean Toussaint , Stanley Turrentine , Branford Marsalis , Dusko Goykovich and the African Mbiraspieler Chartwell Dutiro together . Skinner leads the group Jade Fox together with Dave Okumu and Tom Herbert , he is also a member of the F-ire Collective and of Byron Wallen's group Indigo .

Discographic outward journey

Tom Skinner, Oslo Jazzfestival 2018
Picture: Tore Sætre

• Denys Baptiste Quartet: Be Where You Are , 1999
• Ingrid Laubrock: Sometimes , 2001
• Denys Baptiste Quartet: Alternating Currents , 2001
• Nicolas Simion : Balkan Jazz , 2001
• Finn Peters : Su-ling , 2006

literature

• Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : The Rough Guide of Jazz , p. 735

Web links

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