About

Tom Livingstone is a multi-instrumental musician and producer. Instruments played include trumpet, piano, melodica and Sousaphone. Relocated in 2018 after many years in Brighton U.K to Middelburg in the Netherlands.

2023 brings a host of new music. Every last Friday of the month a new tune will be released on digital platforms. The first six tracks are a new musical departure into the area of ambient Jazz, with soundscapes, grooves in odd time signatures, melodies and plenty of improvisation on piano. The project is called Odd Times. The tracks were written over the winter of 2022/2023.

2022 rounded off a project featuring the melodica under the name of King Melodica. King Melodica is an imaginary 5000 year old character fighting for the planet across a make believe time and space. The music attempts to tell this tale.

2017 saw the completion of an independent project experimenting with soundscapes, trumpet and minimal ambient production. Called “Word of the trumpet”, the project is available for streaming and download on Spotify and Bandcamp.

Tom has written and produced a large catalogue of library production music for Boost Music, Universal, Warner Chappell & DNA Musik. Tom’s Boost Music Catalogue is available here: http://boostmusic.com

Worked as a trumpeter with a Brighton-based eleven-piece Balkan-Roma-style wind and drums ensemble called Fanfara. The band attended workshops by top Balkan Roma musicians “King Nat Veliov” and “The Boban Markovic Orkestar” and visited Romania to learn from top Roma brass musicians “Fanfara Ciocarlia”. In 2009, Fanfara became the first band from the UK to be invited to play at the prestigious Guca trumpet festival held in Serbia and boasting the finest Roma brass players in the world.

Tom has been involved with many bands, notably Los Albertos a ska-based festival band, Quartet Calavera a latin based band featuring the late Ramon Correar, Deep Mamboo and One Big Party led by the late Arthur Vaughan-Richards. Tom also enjoyed a couple of seasons playing sousaphone on stilts with the Poles Apart Stilts company.

Tom was raised in London and during the 1980’s played with a collective of funk based jamming musicians known as TMC.