Tom McDermott (musician)
Tom McDermott is a pianist and composer born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1957. He began studying piano at age six,[1] became a professional musician at 16, and received a Master of Music degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1982. Two years later he moved to New Orleans and became noted for the styles of jazz associated with that town, especially Dixieland jazz and ragtime. He was in the group "Dukes of Dixieland" through much of the 1990s. In 1994 he co-founded and wrote arrangements for the innovative brass band the New Orleans Nightcrawlers. He has released nine CDs as a leader, and has received praise from the New York Times, Rolling Stone magazine, the Los Angeles Times and other publications. Since 2001 he has devoted much time travelling to Brazil, where he has studied and recorded Brazilian choro music.
McDermott is also a journalist, writing primarily about music and travel. He has explained that he is of Irish Catholic and Swedish descent.
Discography
As leader
- All the Keys and Then Some (STR; reissued in 2008 by Parnassus)
- Louisanthology (STR)
- The Crave (STR)
- Danza (with clarinetist Evan Christopher) (STR)
- Choro do Norte (STR)
- Live in Paris (STR)
- Creole Nocturne (with cornetist Connie Jones) (Arbors)
- New Orleans Duets (Rabadash)
- Almost Native (with Evan Christopher) (Threadheads)
- Meschiya Lake and Tom McDermott (Chickie Wah Wah)
- Bamboula (Minky)
- Smiles (w/Kevin Clark; Viper)
- Temptation Rag (w/Kevin Clark; Viper)
- City of Timbres (w/Aurora Nealand) (OPM)
As sideman
- New Orleans Nightcrawlers (Rounder)
- New Orleans Nightcrawlers: Funknicity (Rounder)
- New Orleans Nightcrawlers: Live at the Old Point
- Tim Laughlin: Isle of Orleans
- Matt Perrine: Sunflower City
- Irma Thomas: Simply Grand (Rounder)
- Debbie Davis: It's Not the Years It's the Miles (Threadheads)
- John Boutte: All About Everything
- Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses: a Tribute to Sidney Bechet
- Patchwork: a Tribute to James Booker (STR)
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