Tom McIntosh


Thomas S. "Tom" McIntosh 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 and the Art Farmer/Benny Golson Jazztet.
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.
In 1969, McIntosh 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.
In 2008, McIntosh was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts McIntosh was baptized as Jehovah's Witness on August 13, 1960.

Discography

With Art Blakey
With Illinois Jacquet
With James Moody
  • Another Bag
  • Great Day
  • Moody and the Brass Figures
  • The Blues and Other Colors
With Bobby Timmons
With Milt Jackson
  • ''Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet''

    As sideman

With Art Farmer
With Dizzy Gillespie
  • The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band
With Eddie Harris
  • Plug Me In
With Jimmy Heath
  • Really Big!
With Milt Jackson
  • Vibrations
  • Big Bags
  • For Someone I Love
  • Ray Brown / Milt Jackson with Ray Brown
With John Lewis
With Jack McDuff
  • Prelude
With James Moody
  • James Moody
With Oliver Nelson
With Shirley Scott
  • For Members Only
  • Roll 'Em: Shirley Scott Plays the Big Bands
With Jimmy Smith
  • ''Hoochie Coochie Man''