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Tom Bancroft Orchestro Interrupto & Kidsamoniu

About Me

I Won Award on 12th July 2007. See Blog for details. Amazing night.


Go here for more info on award
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/jazzawards2007/jon3_innovation.sh tml

Kidsamonium

Kidsamonium is a fun, magical musical event aimed at 6 to 14 year olds with a view to letting kids see the exciting power and freedom of jazz & improvised music up close in a format they can digest. Short contributions by a range of artists (including a join-in mass 'Percussion Discussion') combine with performances and interactive musical games by a crack(pot) troupe of musical characters including the mysterious Trombone playing 'Chickens in the Sky', the madcap 'Aviator' Billy Jenkins, the ‘Big Tuba Kid’ Oren Marshall, the Princess Laura MacDonald, the ‘Boost’ Joost Buis from Holland, ‘Monsieur Parp’ Patrick Charboonier from rance, and Judge Claude Deppa from South Africa. It is all led by Tom Bancroft ‘the King’.

4 Star review in The Times 19-3-07
Alyn Shipton
" Kidsamonium” ensured that the centre was packed with excited youthful audiences early in the morning, many of whom stayed on for the free concerts that followed. Dressed as an outsize Elvis, Bancroft has a sense of spectacle. The guitarist Billy Jenkins flew across the auditorium on wires, then the band burst into the foyer pursued by a brass ensemble of giant chickens, only to continue back inside with the whole crowd playing along on give-away kazoos. On the concourse, Bancroft placed coloured discs on the floor. When anyone set foot on them, a brass band on an upper level played a chord. Branford Marsalis and Andy Sheppard were among the high profile disc-hoppers, jumping from colour to colour, and improvising to the chords from above. The result? Plenty of delighted shrieks and laughs from dozens of under12s, many of whom were hearing live music for the first time."

Orchestro Interrupto:
Once called the Tom Bancroft Orchestra this band is so called because it has been working together intermittently since 1990, features the cream of the scottish jazz scene as well as some musically charismatic interlopers from elsewhere. It doesnt play together so often but when it does it tends to be an event.
New studio album coming out in 2007 featuring Chick Lyall on piano!!
See review of last tour in blog


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/21/2006
Band Website: www.interrupto.com
Band Members:

Tom Bancroft Drummer, Composer, Band Leader:

Born in London in 1967, Tom Bancroft is a drummer and composer. He began drumming aged 7 and started off playing jazz with his father and identical twin sax playing brother Phil, singing sister Sophie, other siblings Rolf, Kurt, Liesl, Brigitta and Gretl, and parents Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks. (some of the last bit isn't true). After studying medicine at Cambridge University he spent a year studying composition and arranging at McGill University in Montreal. Qualifying as a doctor in 1992 he then worked primarily as a musician and composer because he couldn't break away from the security and steady income of jazz, but dabbled occasionally to locum work as a hospital doctor in a vain attempt to score drugs and meet women wearing uniforms and...er....pretend like he was on ER (or more realistically- er?). This kind of went on until 1998, when he like most drummers he began to crave some control over his (and other people's) destiny and so began starting music related businesses....like Caber Music (see www.cabermusic.com)...He is married to singer Gina Rae and has two children - Sam and Sophie. In 2004 he received the prestigious Creative Scotland Award. He now runs ABC Creative Music (see www.applebananacarrot.com)brAs a drummer he has studied with Jo Morello, Joey Barron and Andrew Cyrille and played with many great musicians including Sun Ra, Joakim Milder, Charlie Mariano, Hamiett Bluiett, Lianne Carroll, Oliver Lake, George Colligan, David Berkman,Tommy Smith, Julian Argüelles, Emil Vicklicky, Martin Taylor, Sheila Jordan, Shooglenifty, Karen Mathieson, Reid Anderson, Mick McGoldrick, Billy Jenkins, Geri Allen, Mr McFalls Chamber, ARFI, and Martyn Bennett.

Orchestro Interrupto also features great musicians like:

Eddie Severn (lead trumpet), Claude Deppa, Colin Steele, Laura MacDonald, Phil Bancroft, John Telfer, Joost Buis, Patrick Charbonnier, Lorna MacDonald, Mischa Kool, Chick Lyall, Kevin MacKenzie.In the past it has featured a whole range of great musicians including: Brian Kellock, John Rae, Kenny Ellis, Paul Jayasinha, Rick Taylor, Karen Wimhurst, Jorrit Dykstra, Martyn Bennett, Charlie MacKerron, Mick Marra, Sophie Bancroft, Oren Marshall, Lindsay Cooper.
Influences: Duke Ellington, Prince, Carla Bley, Henry Threadgill, David Murray, Jeff Buckley, Charles Mingus, Keith Jarrett, Jelly Roll Morton, Geri Allen, Bill Frisell, Aphex Twin........loads more
Record Label: Interrupto Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Do You Wear Big Pants?

go to http://www.interrupto.com and choose Tom's Blog.If you want a laugh read 'Big Pant's' and 'Chilli Tube Sneeze' in the archive.luv T
Posted by on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:03:00 GMT

BBC Jazz Awards

First things first: I voted for Evan Parker in my category and obviously I am a sub-pimple on a pimple on the arse of his level of innovation. So it was truly ridiculous that I won - I guess I ran a b...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:49:00 GMT

A Bad Review - but in a way very good!!!

Interesting jazz effort is just a bit too avant garde to takeMARTIN LENONTom Bancroft and Enzo Rocco **..The LotLIKE any converted church, The Lot is an ideal space for music. It's a fair bet, though,...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:23:00 GMT

Review of Tom Bancroft & Enzo Rocco duo - Manchester Jazz Festival

Tom Bancroft Manchester Jazz Festival James GriffithsFriday July 28, 2006The Guardian Scottish drummer and composer Tom Bancroft is well known for the surreal sense of humour that informs much of his...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:22:00 GMT

The Chilli Tube Sneeze

The Chili Tube Sneeze The Chilli Tube Sneeze (this is a true story that happened to me in summer 2004)NB This blog entry contains swearing. If you are offended by that DONT READ IT! I settled down in ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:58:00 GMT

Orchestro Interrupto Last Tour Review

Tom Bancroft Orchestro Interrupto with Geri Allen 2004 This tour was voted: Jazz gig of the Year 2004 City Limits Magazine/Manchester - Gigs of the Year Critics Choice 2004 Time Out Magazine/London -...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:07:00 GMT