Scottish Jazz Musicians - Tommy Smith, John Rae, Ken Hyder, Maggie Nicols, Brian Kellock, Alan Davie, Ron Mathewson, Bill Wells, Don Paterson (Paperback)

Chapters: Tommy Smith, John Rae, Ken Hyder, Maggie Nicols, Brian Kellock, Alan Davie, Ron Mathewson, Bill Wells, Don Paterson, Jim Mullen, Alan Thomson, Bobby Wellins, Sandy Brown, Al Fairweather, Peter Guidi, Laura Macdonald, Joe Temperley, Robin Douglas-Home, Tom Mcgrath, Colin Steele, Stan Greig, Billy Munn, Archie Semple, Carol Kidd. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 78. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tommy Smith (born 27 April 1967 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a jazz saxophonist, composer and educator. Smith grew up in the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh and was encouraged to learn the tenor saxophone from the age of 12 onwards. At the age of 16, he obtained a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music. There he joined Gary Burton's group. He has become one of Scotland's leading jazz musicians and composers, an internationally recognised soloist and bandleader since the late-1980s and the musical director and driving force behind the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and his own Youth Jazz Orchestra. His CV, since touring and recording the Whiz Kids (ECM Records) album with vibraphonist Gary Burton at the age of eighteen, includes a total of twenty-three albums under his own name for Hep Records, GFM, Blue Note Records, Linn Records and his own Spartacus label. Smith has worked in jazz groups and big bands, and has recorded and toured with world-renowned jazz musicians including Joe Lovano, David Liebman, Benny Golson, Joe Locke, Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Tommy Flanagan, John Scofield, John Patitucci, Miroslav Vitous, Arild Andersen, Trilok Gurtu, Jack DeJohnette, Jon Christensen, John Taylor, Joanne Brackeen and Kenny Wheeler. He has composed for and performed with classical orchestras and ensembles including the Orchestra of St. John's Square, the Scottish Ensemble, the...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=203174