Tom McDermott

Tom McDermott is a pianist and composer born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1957. He began studying piano at six and became a professional musician at age sixteen; a Masters in Music degree from Washington University in St. Louis followed in 1982. Two years later he moved to New Orleans and became noted for the styles of jazz linked to the town, especially Dixieland jazz and ragtime. He was in the group "Dukes of Dixieland" thru much of the 1990s. In l994 he co-founded and wrote some of the first arrangements for the New Orleans Nightcrawlers, an innovative brass band. He has released seven CDs, receiving praise from the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times and others. Since 2001 he has devoted much time travelling to Brazil, where he has studied and recorded Brazilian choro.

McDermott is also a journalist, writing primarily about music and travel.

Discography

As a 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)

As sideman

*New Orleans Nightcrawlers (Rounder)
*New Orleans Nightcrawlers: Funknicity (Rounder)
*New Orleans Nightcrawlers: Live at the Old Point
*Tim Laughlin: Isle of Orleans
*Kevin Clark: New Orleans Jazz Brunch
*Matt Perrine: Sunflower City
*Irma Thomas: Simply Grand (Rounder)

Contact Tom McDermott at [e-mail]

External links

*youtube.com (tom mcdermott solo)
* [http://www.strdigital.com/mcDermott.htm Artist bio at STR Digital]
* [http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/sp99art7.html Article about Tom by Edward A. Berlin of Brooklyn College]
* [http://offbeat.com/artman/publish/article_3007.shtml Offbeat Magazine profile, April 2008]
* [http://www.peopleofneworleans.com/video/24/ People of New Orleans] - Video interview with Tom McDermott playing the Maple Leaf Rag at the end (Quicktime and Windows Media formats).
* [http://www.ragtime.nu/mcdermott.htm Ragtime site]
* [http://www.satchmoz.at/mcdermott_e.htm Satchmoz]