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Tom Gullion (born July 25, 1965, Clinton, Indiana) is an American jazz saxophonist.
Clinton is a city in Clinton Township, Vermillion County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 4,893 at the 2010 census.
Gullion studied with David Baker at Indiana University. He began his professional career with trombonist J. J. Johnson. He and his wife, a classical violinist, moved to Spain, where she worked in an orchestra. Gullion recorded with the band Clunia and also provided music for movies and television. In 1995, they moved to Chicago, and Guillion attended graduate school at Northwestern University. Four years later, he released his debut solo album, Cat's Cradle (Naim, 1999). [1]
David Nathaniel Baker Jr. was an American jazz composer, conductor, and musician from Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Baker is best known as an educator and founder of the jazz studies program. From 1991 to 2012, he was conductor and musical and artistic director for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. He has more than 65 recordings, 70 books, and 400 articles to his credit.
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