TOMMY SMITH

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Tommy Smith (born 27 April 1967 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a jazz saxophonist, composer and educator. The jazz critic Richard Cook said of him, "Of the generation which emerged in the mid-80s, he might be the most outstandingly talented".

Thomas William Ellis Smith was born in Edinburgh on April 27, 1967, to a Scottish mother, Brenda Ann Urquhart, and father, William John Ellis, whom he never met. Smith was brought up in the Wester Hailes area of the city, where he was encouraged by his stepfather, George Smith, an avid jazz fan and drummer in the Gene Krupa style, to take up the tenor saxophone at the age of twelve.

Under clarinetist Jim O’Malley and pianist Jean Allison of the music department at Wester Hailes Education Centre, Smith was soon gigging around Edinburgh and Scotland with his quartet with John Rae. In 1983, aged sixteen, Smith recorded his first album,
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TOMMY SMITH Giant Strides album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Giant Strides
Post Bop 1983
TOMMY SMITH Taking Off! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Taking Off!
Post Bop 1984
TOMMY SMITH Step By Step album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Step By Step
Post Bop 1989
TOMMY SMITH Peeping Tom album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Peeping Tom
Post Bop 1990
TOMMY SMITH Standards album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Standards
Post Bop 1991
TOMMY SMITH Paris album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Paris
Post Bop 1992
TOMMY SMITH Reminiscence album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Reminiscence
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1994
TOMMY SMITH Misty Morning and No Time album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Misty Morning and No Time
Post Bop 1995
TOMMY SMITH Beasts of Scotland album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beasts of Scotland
Post Bop 1996
TOMMY SMITH Azure album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Azure
Post Bop 1997
TOMMY SMITH The Sound Of Love (The Ballads Of Duke Ellington And Billy Strayhorn) album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
The Sound Of Love (The Ballads Of Duke Ellington And Billy Strayhorn)
Post Bop 1998
TOMMY SMITH Blue Smith album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blue Smith
Hard Bop 1999
TOMMY SMITH Gymnopédie album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gymnopédie
Third Stream 1999
TOMMY SMITH Tommy Smith ,featuring Kenny Barron : Spartacus album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tommy Smith ,featuring Kenny Barron : Spartacus
Hard Bop 2000
TOMMY SMITH Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock : Bezique album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tommy Smith & Brian Kellock : Bezique
Post Bop 2002
TOMMY SMITH Alone At Last album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Alone At Last
Eclectic Fusion 2002
TOMMY SMITH Evolution album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Evolution
Post Bop 2003
TOMMY SMITH Symbiosis album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Symbiosis
Post Bop 2004
TOMMY SMITH Forbidden Fruit album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Forbidden Fruit
Post Bop 2005
TOMMY SMITH The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra featuring Joe Locke: Exploration album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra featuring Joe Locke: Exploration
Big Band 2007
TOMMY SMITH Tommy Smith, Scottish National Jazz Orchestra  : Torah album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tommy Smith, Scottish National Jazz Orchestra : Torah
Third Stream 2010
TOMMY SMITH Karma album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Karma
Fusion 2011
TOMMY SMITH Tommy Smith/Brian Kellock: Whispering Of The Stars album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tommy Smith/Brian Kellock: Whispering Of The Stars
Post Bop 2014
TOMMY SMITH Tommy Smith & The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra : Modern Jacobite album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tommy Smith & The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra : Modern Jacobite
Third Stream 2016
TOMMY SMITH Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra : Effervescence album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra : Effervescence
Big Band 2016
TOMMY SMITH Embodying The Light : Dedication to John Coltrane album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Embodying The Light : Dedication to John Coltrane
Post Bop 2017
TOMMY SMITH Tommy Smith & John Taylor : Love Unrequited album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tommy Smith & John Taylor : Love Unrequited
Post Bop 2024

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TOMMY SMITH Into Silence album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Into Silence
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2001
TOMMY SMITH The Christmas Concert album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Christmas Concert
Hard Bop 2002
TOMMY SMITH Solow album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Solow
Third Stream 2021
TOMMY SMITH Luminescence album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Luminescence
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2024

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