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this trio is more intense and exciting than almost aything else coming out of America John clare on Sofa King Sydney morning Herald trumpeter Ive ever heard....For sheer bursting excitement there can be few anywhere to match him. Tinklers 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 John barrett ALL ABOUT JAZZ Peter Jordan Sydney Morning Herald.

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.

"How come I cant 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 John Clare Sydney Morning Herald. tones straining against an equally hard-driving bass and drums." Leon Gettler, " The Age." performance of conviction and passion- hallmarks of Tinklers own playing." "Tinkler is such a strong and assured improviserAt 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." daring and original. Peter Jordan " MZ"

"Scott Tinkler plays the trumpet like his life depends on it. This is urgent, in-yer-face music,