Tom McIntosh

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

For other uses, see Tom McIntosh (disambiguation).
Tom McIntosh
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(1927-12-06)December 6, 1927
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
DiedJuly 26, 2017(2017-07-26) (aged 89)
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Instrumentalist, composer, arranger, conductor
InstrumentsTrombone

McIntosh was born in Baltimore, Maryland and 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).

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 [4] McIntosh was baptized a Jehovah's Witness on August 13, 1960.

McIntosh died in his sleep on July 26, 2017 [5]

Discography

As arranger

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

  • Hoochie Coochie Man (Verve, 1966)

References
  1. http://amhistory.si.edu/jazz/Mcintosh-Tom/McIntosh_Tom_Transcript.pdf Oral interview with Tom McIntosh by the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program
  2. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/baltimoresun/obituary.aspx?pid=186327111
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0FM_7_drf0
  4. https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/tom-mcintosh
  5. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/baltimoresun/obituary.aspx?pid=186327111
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