Tom Smith
TROMBONIST - CONDUCTOR - EDUCATOR - RESEARCHER - WRITER
Thsmith.com has been constructed to address a need for organizing my rapidly evolving mental clutter. For once, I have made a realistic attempt to archive some of the better known articles and reviews. This way, people will never have to sift through the really obscure stuff, although I am certain there inevitably will be those who recoil in horror at some of the things I now consider note worthy. There is also a new forum page, something devoted to non music writings, many, many photographs, and a section dedicated to Romanian adventures.
Perhaps of greatest significance is a comprehensive soundlips page that contains over four hours of music. There are recordings and live concerts that go as all the way back to 1979. It is divided into two sections: recordings of Tom Smith led big bands, and solo/small group sessions.
A very wise person once told me life is what happens while you are making plans. A truer expression was never uttered. Yet, with change comes the more exciting probability of new frontiers. I guess sometimes you just have to open the door and walk inside.

Of course one could not spend three decades coordinating a menagerie of enchanted tasks without being surrounded by people far better than yourself. For me this began in 1978, when we were able to pull off a three day free jazz festival in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, albeit by the skin of our teeth. Then later as we were building those Appalachian ensembles (for which I am as proud as anything I was ever associated with) we were privy to a backwoods jazz and cultural revolution, [...] read more

Tom with Romanian President Ion Iliescu
Cotroceni Palace, May 2003
email to: tomsmithjazz@yahoo.com
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