In the spring 2007 Tuomas Kallio was awarded a one month working grant from The Foundation for the Promotion of Finnish Music (LUSES). Kallio is one of the leading persons behind the group The Five Corners Quintet and the driving force behind the Flow festival arranged in Helsinki for the fourth time last year. The Five Corners Quintet was also awarded a travel grant for participating to Beogradski Jazz Festival in Serbia in autumn 2007.

LUSES is founded from the Private Copying Remuneration distribution for collective purposes for composers, lyricists, arrangers and publishers.

The Five Corners Quintet started as a studio project of producer Tuomas Kallio and DJ Antti Eerikäinen in 2003, when their first single 'Trading Eights' was released.

The 10' vinyl single formed as a collage of samples from old jazz recordings and real musicians playing soloist parts. Utilizing new technology and old sounds, the postmodern project of Kallio and Eerikäinen aimed to design a modern version of the 1960s jazz for today's dance floors, making clubbers new audiences for jazz music.

The Five Corners Quintet recordings became so popular, that a need for a live line-up was established. In September 2005 Kallio and Eerikäinen released the first full-length CD 'Chasin' The Jazz Gone By' on their own Ricky-Tick label with remarkab.