TOMMY SMITH
Post Bop / Third Stream / Hard Bop / Post-Fusion Contemporary / Big Band / Fusion / Eclectic Fusion • United Kingdom
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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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Paris
Post Bop
1992
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Azure
Post Bop
1997
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Karma
Fusion
2011
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Solow
Third Stream
2021
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