Tommy Smith

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tommy Smith
Occupation	Saxophonist
Date Of Birth	Apr 27, 1967(1967-04-27)
Age	57
Birthplace	Scotland
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Taurus

Tommy Smith Biography

Tommy Smith is one of the most popular and richest Saxophonist who was born on April 27, 1967 in Scotland, United Kingdom. Award-winning saxophonist who emerged in the 1980s and who signed with Blue Note Records when he was in his twenties.

Smith collaborated with Charles Mingus while playing with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.

Thomas William Ellis Smith OBE (born 27 April 1967) is a Scottish jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator.

In 1989 Smith performed An Rathad ùr, a concerto for saxophone by William Sweeney, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for the television series Jazz Types, which Smith also presented. Prompted by Roger Pollen of the Scottish Ensemble, he spent six months studying orchestration for strings with a commission for saxophone and strings very much in mind. As a Blue Note musician at the time, Smith had access to the parent company EMI’s classical catalogue. He researched orchestration texts by Samuel Adler, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Cecil Forsyth, and spent two productive years in Paris where he studied classical music. He wrote his first classical composition, Unirsi in Matrimonio, for saxophone and strings in 1990. This was followed by another work for strings and saxophone, Un Ecossais A Paris in 1991, and he collaborated with classical pianist (Murray McLachlan) for Sonata No.1 – Hall of Mirrors and Sonata No.2 Dreaming with Open Eyes, both for saxophone and piano.

He was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Tommy Smith Net Worth

Tommy Smith is one of the richest Saxophonist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tommy Smith 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He attended Berklee College of Music and joined Gary Burton’s band after recommended by Chick Corea.

His early 1990s albums were all received with critical acclaim.

Smith was born in Edinburgh on 27 April 1967 to Scottish parents 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. When he was thirteen he attended a weekly jazz workshop under the direction of Gordon Cruikshank. He met pathologist and pianist Vincenzo Crucioli, who became a mentor. With drummer John Rae, his first group won Edinburgh International Jazz Festival Best Group award in 1981. At fourteen Smith won Best Soloist. He attributes much of his early success to the tuition of Vincenzo Crucioli. Under additional clarinettist Jim O’Malley and pianist Jean Allison at Wester Hailes Education Centre, Smith was soon performing around Edinburgh and Scotland with his quartet with John Rae. In 1983, at sixteen, he recorded his first album Giant Strides with a trio featuring Rae & Alan Taylor. During the same year, he recorded his second album Taking Off, and won a scholarship, assisted by a fund-raising program organized by his music teacher, Jean Allison, to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. At Berklee he formed the band Forward Motion with Norwegian bassist Terje Gewelt, Canadian drummer Ian Froman, and Hungarian pianist Laszlo Gardony. The band recorded two albums, Progressions and The Berklee Tapes.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Tommy Smith Dating?

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The repertory programs have included Duke Ellington’s extended suites, celebrations of Count Basie and Benny Goodman (with special guest Ken Peplowski) and the collaborations between Miles Davis and Gil Evans – Porgy & Bess, Sketches of Spain (both with Gerard Presencer as trumpet soloist) and Miles Ahead (with Ingrid Jensen). SNJO has presented the music of Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Benny Carter, Stan Kenton, Thelonious Monk, Steely Dan, Astor Piazzolla, and Pat Metheny (with guitarists Jim Mullen, Phil Robson, Mike Walker and Kevin MacKenzie) and premiered special commissions by Keith Tippett, Florian Ross, and Geoffrey Keezer, as well as specially commissioned arrangements of John Coltrane, Chick Corea (with drummer Gary Novak), Wayne Shorter featuring Gary Burton, Electric Miles featuring John Scofield, Weather Report featuring Peter Erskine, and Kurt Elling.

Facts & Trivia

Tommy Ranked on the list of most popular Saxophonist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Tommy Smith celebrates birthday on April 27 of every year.

Where is Tommy Smith now?

Smith lives in Georgia after a long career teaching at Santa Monica College in Southern California and at Oberlin College in Ohio. He rarely speaks publicly these days, but in an interview conducted this week he talked about the current climate of protest and the slow process of change.

How many children did Tommy Smith have?

Smith and his wife, Delois Jordan-Smith, did not want to part with the medal or the other treasures he has kept over the years. However, they were outvoted by his five children. “It was a family decision, a consensus of the Smith family,” Smith, 56, said.

Did Tommie Smith sell his gold medal?

Tommie Smith is selling the gold medal he won at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City , where his Black Power salute on the podium shocked the sports world. Tommie Smith is selling the gold medal he won at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, where his Black Power salute on the podium shocked the sports world.

What is Tommie Smith famous for?

Tommie Smith, (born June 6, 1944, Clarksville, Texas, U.S.), American sprinter who held the world record for the 200-metre dash with turn (1966–71), his best time being 19.83 sec—the first time that the distance was run in less than 20 sec.

Where did Tommie Smith go to college?

Education