About
Tom Vickery remains a leading figure on the West Coast jazz scene. Equally talented on both trumpet and piano, in 1993 he participated in a national tour of Canada with the Canadian Forces Jazz Quintet for the Department of National Defense.
For the past 10 years, he has played with the award-winning Dixieland Express Jazz Band, host band for the annual ‘TerrifVic Jazz Party’. The Tom Vickery Trio has been the house band at Hermann’s Jazz Club in Victoria for more than 14 years. He played in Hugh Fraser’s (international) Jazz Workshop Orchestra for two years, and has been the featured pianist with vocalist Barbara Blair’s “Jazz Affair” group for the past 10 years. He is also a member of the Chris Millington Jazz Quartet, the resident band in the Bengal Lounge of the renowned Empress Hotel in Victoria.
