Thomas S. McIntosh (born February 6, 1927) is an American jazz composer and trombonist.
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 (1959, 1962) and Art Farmer and Benny Golson (1960). 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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Discography [link]
- 1968: Manhattan Serenade - Earl Coleman - with Jerome Richardson (fl) Billy Taylor (p) Frank Foster (ts) Tom McIntosh Eddie Williams (ts) Gene Bertoncini (g) Reggie Workman (b) Bobby Thomas (d)
As Composer [link]
- "The Day After" from the Howard McGhee album "Sharp Edge" recorded Dec. 6, 1961 [1]
As Arranger [link]
With Bobby Timmons
- Got to Get It! (Milestone, 1967)
With Milt Jackson
- Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet (Verve, 1968)
As sideman [link]
With Dizzy Gillespie
- The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (MPS, 1968)
With Eddie Harris
- Plug Me In (Atlantic, 1968)
With Milt Jackson
- Vibrations (Atlantic, 1960-61)
- Big Bags (Riverside, 1962)
- For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963)
- Ray Brown / Milt Jackson with Ray Brown (Verve, 1965)
With Oliver Nelson
- The Spirit of '67 with Pee Wee Russell (Impulse!, 1967)
With Shirley Scott
- For Members Only (Impulse!, 1963)
- Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands (Impulse!, 1966)
References [link]
- Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford, 1999, p. 451.
- https://arts.endow.gov/av/video/2008jazzpanel/index.html
External links [link]
https://wn.com/Tom_McIntosh
Tom McIntosh (comedian)
Tom McIntosh (1840–1904) was an African-American comedian who starred in many colored minstrel shows in the USA from the 1870s to the 1900s. He was considered one of the funniest performers in this genre.
Early career
Tom McIntosh was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1840. He became an exhibition drummer, singer and comedian, singer. He teamed with the female impersonator Willis Ganze. McIntosh performed on some of the main entertainment circuits in America, notably with Charles Callender's Georgia Minstrels. He played with Charles Hicks and Billy Kersands in the Original Georgia Minstrels in the 1870s and 1880s.
In 1881 McIntosh took his comic drumming act to England with Haverly's Genuine Colored Minstrels. The proprietor of this troupe was J. H. Haverly, who had combined Callender's Minstrels with his United Mastodon Minstrels. The resulting 100-person show was often called the Black One Hundred. It was formed in Chicago, toured most of the large cities in the USA, and in 1881-82 made a successful tour of Europe. The Callender company was then taken over by Charles Frohman, who built it into a huge company that toured in the USA from 1882 to 1884 under names such as Callender's Colossal Consolidated Colored Minstrels. The company again toured Europe with Haverly's Minstrels in 1884.
Tom McIntosh (disambiguation)
Tom McIntosh may refer to:
