Trevor Tomkins

Trevor Tomkins

Trevor Ramsey Tomkins (born 12 May 1941 in London) is an English jazz drummer best known for his work in a number of British bands in the 1970s, including Gilgamesh.

His recorded several albums with pianist Michael Garrick in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the 1970s, he worked with Ian Carr's Nucleus and Henry Lowther's Quaternity.

He is the first cousin of Roy Budd (jazz pianist and film composer of "Get Carter" fame), and Peter C. Budd (jazz guitarist living in Chicago), and was a member of various trios and other line-ups with Roy Budd.

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* [http://calyx.club.fr/mus/tomkins_trevor.html Calyx biography]


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