Tom Bancroft Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Tom Bancroft (born 1967, London) is a British jazz drummer and composer.He began drumming aged seven and started off playing jazz with his father and identical twin brother, Phil. After studying medicine at Cambridge University, he spent a year studying composition and arranging at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Qualifying as a doctor in 1992, he then worked as a jazz musician and composer, supporting his music income with locum work as a hospital doctor until 1998, when he began starting music related companies. He is married to singer Gina Rae and has two children - Sam and Sophie. In 2004 he received the Creative Scotland Award.In 1998, he launched Caber Music with support from the National Lottery Fund, which went on to release over thirty CDs over the next seven years to critical acclaim, including two BBC Jazz Awards for Best CD, and numerous album of the year placings. He has subsequently started the company ABC Creative Music with his twin brother Phil Bancroft, which develops creative music education resources, which are now being used in more than 500 schools in Scotland.As a drummer he has studied with Jo Morello, Joey Baron and Andrew Cyrille, and played with many musicians including Sun Ra, Joakim Milder, Charlie Mariano, Hamiett Bluiett, Liane Carroll, Oliver Lake, George Colligan, David Berkman, Tommy Smith, Julian Argüelles, Emil Vicklicky, Martin Taylor, Sheila Jordan, Shooglenifty, Karen Mathieson, Reid Anderson, Billy Jenkins, Bill Wells, Geri Allen, Mr. McFall's Chamber, and Martyn Bennett.He is currently the drummer with the Dave Milligan Trio, the Chick Lyall Trio, and Kevin MacKenzie’s Vital Signs, the Laura MacDonald Quartet and Octet and plays in an improvising duo with the Italian guitarist Enzo Rocco.He is drummer and co-leader of Trio AAB, whose first album, Cold Fusion was named an album of 1999 by BBC Radio 3, and whose second album, Wherever I Lay My Home That's My Hat was an album of 2001 in The Guardian, and picked in a list of 100 essential all time jazz albums by Mojo magazine in 2001. They also released Stranger Things Happen at C in 2002. Reactivated in 2011, Trio AAB performed at the Delhi Jazz Festival.As a band leader and composer he has led Orchestro Interrupto (formerly the Tom Bancroft Orchestra), a contemporary jazz big band, producing the album Pieology in 1998, many festival performances, a UK tour, and a live concert broadcast on BBC Radio 3. In 2004, the band toured the UK with Geri Allen, and the tour was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and received five star reviews in The Guardian and The Scotsman, and was voted jazz gig of the year in Manchester's City Limits and London's Time Out magazines. Orchestri Interrupto released a CD in 2009 of the music from the Geri Allen tour, with Chick Lyall on piano, entitled The Ballad of Linda & Crawford.Bancroft has also composed for smaller groups including the Orange Ear Ensemble (octet), and Kilt Couture (a collaboration with French group ARFI). In 200
Net Worth
$500,000
Date Of Birth
1967-01-01
Profession
Animation Department, Director, Art Department
Nicknames
Tom Bancroft, Bancroft, Tom
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Fact
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His twin brother, Tony Bancroft, was the co-director of "Mulan" (1998). They have worked on a total of six films together: "Rescuers Down Under" (1990) "Roller Coaster Rabbit" (1990), "Beauty & the Beast" (1991), "Aladdin" (1993), "Lion King" (1994), and "Mulan" (1998).
Animation Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bunyan and Babe
2016
storyboard artist post-production
Superbook
TV Series character designer - 20 episodes, 2012 - 2014 character design - 1 episode, 2011
Brother Bear
2003
additional animator: "Tuke"
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
2002
character designer
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
2001
additional animator
John Henry
2000
Short supervising animator
Tarzan
1999
additional animator
Mulan
1998
supervising animator: "Mushu"
Pocahontas
1995
animator: "Pocahontas"
The Lion King
1994
animator: "Young Simba"
Aladdin
1993/I
Video Game animator
Trail Mix-Up
1993
Short character animator
Aladdin
1992
animator: "Iago"
Off His Rockers
1992
Short animator
Beauty and the Beast
1991
animating assistant
The Rescuers Down Under
1990
character key
Roller Coaster Rabbit
1990
Short assistant animator
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Superbook
2012
TV Series 1 episode
3-2-1 Penguins!
2007-2008
TV Series 3 episodes
Larry Boy: The Cartoon Adventures
TV Series 2 episodes, 2003 supervising director - 2 episodes, 2002
VeggieTales: The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown
2001
Video short
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Barbie: Dreamtopia
2016
TV Movie artist
VeggieTales: Abe and the Amazing Promise
2009
Video concept artist
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie
2008
storyboard artist
Duck Dodgers
2005
TV Series storyboard artist - 1 episode
Larry Boy: The Cartoon Adventures
2002-2003
TV Series character design - 4 episodes
3-2-1 Penguins: The Cheating Scales of Bullamanka
2001
Video short concept artist
3-2-1 Penguins! Trouble on Planet Wait-Your-Turn
2000
Video short additional concept artist
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Superbook
2016
TV Series storyboard revisions - 1 episode
Larry Boy: The Cartoon Adventures
2002
TV Series adaption - 1 episode
VeggieTales: Esther, the Girl Who Became Queen
2000
Video short additional story artist
Mighty Mouse, the New Adventures
1988
TV Series production coordinator - 6 episodes
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Soccer Mom Detective
2008
Short
Customer
Larry Boy: The Cartoon Adventures
2002
TV Series
Other Character
Art Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
VeggieTales: The Ultimate Silly Song Countdown
2001
Video short
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
This Is America, Charlie Brown
1988
TV Mini-Series 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Drawn to Animation
2001
Short
Himself
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1998
Annie
Annie Awards
Outstanding Individual Achievement for Character Animation
Mulan (1998)
Known for movies
The Lion King (1994) as Animation Department
Beauty and the Beast (1991) as Animation Department