TOM MCDERMOTT
Genres: Classic (1920s) Jazz, Ragtime, Exotica, Third Stream, Stride Piano, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Original New Orleans Jazz, Latin Jazz • United States

Tom McDermott is one of New Orleans’ premiere piano players and composers. He grew up in St. Louis, where he earned a Masters’ Degree in Music, wrote music journalism for the morning paper, and soaked up the sounds of ragtime and traditional jazz that flourished there in the 1960s and 70s. In 1984, spurred by his love of James Booker, Professor Longhair and Dr. John, he moved to New Orleans, a trip enabled by a gig at the World’s Fair. Tom has been quite busy the last 30 years. For much of the 1990s he was a Duke of Dixieland, which took him to Europe, Asia, South America and all over the States (including Carnegie Hall); he recorded several albums with the Dukes, including a tribute to Jelly Roll Morton with the fabled raconteur Danny Barker. In 1995, after arranging a tune for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band album “Jelly,” he co-founded read more...