Tom McIntosh – Biography, Discography & Instruments

Biography

Tom McIntosh was a jazz musician who played trombone. Tom McIntosh was born on 6 February 1927 in Baltimore and died on 26 July 2017 in Boston. The music is usually filed under jazz. Honours include NEA Jazz Masters.

Thomas S. McIntosh (February 6, 1927 – July 26, 2017) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, arranger, and conductor. 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. 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.

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Albums where Tom McIntosh is credited as a sideman

1959	James Moody — James Moody	trombone
1961	Moody With Strings — James Moody	trombone
1962	Big Bags — Milt Jackson	trombone
1962	Another Bag — James Moody	arranger
1963	Reeds & Deeds — Roland Kirk	trombone
1964	Vibrations — Milt Jackson	trombone
1964	Prelude — Brother Jack McDuff	trombone
1965	Ray Brown / Milt Jackson — Ray Brown / Milt Jackson	trombone
1966	Hold On, I’m Coming — Art Blakey	arranger, trombone
1966	Peter & The Wolf — Jimmy Smith	trombone
1966	Hoochie Coochie Man — Jimmy Smith	trombone
1966	Delightfulee — Lee Morgan	trombone
1966	Roll 'em: Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands — Shirley Scott	trombone
1967	Moody and the Brass Figures — James Moody	arranger, conductor
1968	Giblet Gravy — George Benson	arranger, conductor
1968	Stay Loose — Jimmy Smith	arranger, conductor
1968	Presenting Joe Williams and Thad Jones / Mel Lewis: The Jazz Orchestra — Joe Williams & The Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Orchestra	trombone
1968	Plug Me In — Eddie Harris	trombone
1969	The Blues and Other Colors — James Moody	arranger, conductor, trombone
1978	Beyond This World — James Moody	arranger, producer
1978	A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich — Hubert Laws	arranger, conductor, producer
1984	The Great Day — James Moody	arranger, conductor
1988	Moving Forward — James Moody	arranger, producer
1990	Joe Williams With Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra — Joe Williams & The Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Orchestra	trombone
1993	The Electrifying Eddie Harris / Plug Me In — Eddie Harris	trombone
1994	Joe Williams With Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra — Joe Williams	trombone
1994	Roll 'Em — Shirley Scott	trombone
1997	Got My Mojo Working / Hoochie Coochie Man — Jimmy Smith	trombone
1998	Got to Get It! — Bobby Timmons	arranger, conductor
2004	Off the Record — James Moody	trombone