Tom McIntosh

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Tom McIntosh
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McIntosh receives the Jazz Master award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2008. The award is the highest honor in jazz in the United States.
Background information
Birth nameThomas S. McIntosh
Born(1927-02-06)February 6, 1927
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
DiedJuly 26, 2017(2017-07-26) (aged 90)
Genres Jazz
Occupation(s)Instrumentalist, composer, arranger, conductor
Instrument Trombone

Thomas S. "Tom" McIntosh (February 6, 1927 [1] - July 26, 2017) [2] was an American jazz trombonist, composer, arranger, and conductor.

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McIntosh was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the eldest of six siblings. He also had an elder half-sibling by his father. He studied at Peabody Conservatory. He was stationed in West Germany after World War II. [3] He played trombone in an Army band, and eventually graduated from Juilliard in 1958. He played in New York City from 1956, with Lee Morgan, Roland Kirk, James Moody (1959, 1962) and the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet (1960–61). [4]

In 1961, McIntosh composed a song for trumpeter Howard McGhee. In 1963, he composed music for Dizzy Gillespie's Something Old, Something New album. The following year his composition Whose Child Are You? was performed by the New York Jazz Sextet, of which he was a member. He also worked with Thad Jones and Mel Lewis later in the 1960s.

In 1969, McIntosh gave up jazz and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television composing. He wrote music for The Learning Tree , Soul Soldier , Shaft's Big Score , Slither , A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich , and John Handy .

In 2008, McIntosh was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts [5] McIntosh was baptized as Jehovah's Witness on August 13, 1960.[ citation needed ]

Discography

As arranger/composer

With Art Blakey

With Illinois Jacquet

With James Moody

With Bobby Timmons

With Milt Jackson

As sideman

With Art Farmer

With Dizzy Gillespie

With Eddie Harris

With Jimmy Heath

With Milt Jackson

With John Lewis

With Jack McDuff

With James Moody

With Oliver Nelson

With Shirley Scott

With Jimmy Smith

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References

  1. ↑ "Oral interview with Tom McIntosh by the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  2. ↑ Obituary, local802afm.org. Accessed November 30, 2022.
  3. ↑ "YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
  4. ↑ Obituary, local802afm.org. Accessed November 30, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Tom McIntosh" . Retrieved November 30, 2022.

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