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Tom Barford

Winner of the 2017 Kenny Wheeler Prize, Tom was raised in a musical family and grew up surrounded by music, from Frank Sinatra to Louis Armstrong. He started the saxophone at the age of 9 but it wasn’t until a few years later that Will Osborne’s inspiring lessons led Tom to a specific interest in Jazz. Tom joined the Junior Jazz Course at the Royal Academy of Music aged 16, before going on to gain a scholarship place on the Undergraduate Jazz Programme at the Academy in 2013 and earning a First Class Hons degree in 2017. During his time at the Academy, Tom has slowly become recognised as one of the most exciting young players emerging on the scene

Terra Boa

By Jonny Wickham

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2023

AuB

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Not Jazz; Valencia; Calvados; Rufio; Ice Man; Dual Reality; Doggerland; Groundhog Tuesday.

AuB: AuB

by Chris May
May 15, 2020

Twin-tenor frontlines are almost as old as jazz itself. Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane's meeting on the title track of Rollins' Tenor Madness (Prestige, 1956) may be the starting point for some listeners, but AAJers do not need reminding that the tradition was popular in live performances as far back the 1920s. Later, with the arrival ...

Bloomer

By Tom Barford

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Bloomer; Space to Dream; Phizzwizard; F Step; Music For An Imagined Film; Razztwizzler Ahead; Razztwizzler; Ideology (For Iain Ballamy); The Highly Strung Trapeze Artist.

Tom Barford, Hugh Masakela and Count Basie

by Bob Osborne
October 4, 2018

The debut album from British saxophonist, composer and 2017 winner of the Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize, Tom Barford, is the featured release on this show. Also featured is a great collection of early Hugh Masakela recordings, and some classic Count Basie cuts. In between jazz rock from Gong and a selection of brand new releases.

Tom Barford: Bloomer

by Roger Farbey
August 28, 2018

The Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize, founded in 2011, is awarded each year to a young artist who demonstrates excellence in both performance and composition, selected from all graduating jazz musicians at the Royal Academy of Music. The prestigious prize includes a release of the artist's proposed recording on Edition Records. Thus it is that the 2017 ...