Tom McIntosh
Trombonist, Composer
1927 –
Who is Tom McIntosh?
Thomas S. McIntosh is an American jazz trombonist, composer, arranger and conductor.
McIntosh was born in Baltimore, Maryland and studied at Peabody Conservatory. 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 and Art Farmer and Benny Golson. In 1961 he composed a song for trumpet legend 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 he 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.
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- Born
- Feb 6, 1927
Baltimore - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Juilliard School
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on July 23, 2013
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