TOM ARTHURS
Genres: Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Post-Fusion Contemporary, 21st Century Modern, Classic Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz • United Kingdom

Tom Arthurs is a trumpeter and composer for the 21st century – drawing honestly and infinitely from a dizzying range of influences. His music-making represents a rare beauty and creative depth, and he cites inspiration from John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler and Jimmy Guiffre, African and South American traditional music, Berlin’s Echtzeitmusik scene, as well as György Ligeti, Luc Ferrari and Morton Feldman. Aside from music, Tarkovsky, Godard, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Lau Tzu and Farid Ud-Din Attar remain deeply influential, as do much-cherished experiences of baroque music, the pygmies of Central Africa, Gal Costa, David Sylvian and Arto Lindsay. Already by his mid-30s, news of Arthurs’ finesse, glowing sound and relentless creativity has spread far and wide, with New York City Jazz Record’s Thomas Conrad describing his playing as “continuously, beautifully unfamiliar”, and allaboutjazz’s John Kelman describing his improvisations as “simple but perfect”, demonstrating “an exacting perfection” and with “a harmon-muted tone that read more...