People have been emailing us for months, inquiring as to why the Tom Smith Jazz Home Page has not updated. A lot of changes have taken place in Tom's life since the last update. He is now a full time university professor. In the meantime he has maintained a busy performing and writing schedule, including: several appearances with R&B star Ben E. King, jazz concerts with Carl Fontana, Eddie Daniels, and McCoy Tyner, and a jazz history research presentation at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference in New York City. He also made contributions to the soon to be published Institute of Jazz Studies Year End Review, published by Rutgers University. All in all Tom experienced an eventful August to January time frame. Now to new frontiers…
Check out Tom's new Questions and Answers page, where he provides his choices for the thirty greatest big bands of all time. His choices are interesting, entertaining, and enlightened. If you disagree, you have the email address. Tom also wants to talk with anyone wishing to attend his school at Pfeiffer University. Be on the lookout for more updates on this subject. We know that a lot of college students use this site for preparing music appreciation and jazz history term papers. Check out our new Jazz Research link. We want to know what you need to make our links page more helpful. Let us know. We are glad to be back.
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