Tom Coppola

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Thomas Wilkinson "Tom" Coppola (born June 6, 1945 ) is an American fusion musician ( piano , arrangements ).

Live and act

Coppola started playing the piano at the age of 8 after his mother bought a small Steinway grand piano . His interest in jazz was sparked by the New York jazz radio stations. After graduating from Manhattan College in 1967, he began his career as a sound engineer in New York with album projects, commercial jingles and television work. He also started working as a musician in the late 1960s. Together with his future wife Googie Coppola, he founded the group Air , which first appeared with Herbie Mann and recorded its own album for Mann's Embryo label in 1971 . He then went on tour with Marvin Gaye , worked as a studio musician for Lenny White , Chic and Paul Simon ( Hearts and Bones ) and released duo recordings with Googie Coppola ( Shine the Light of Love ) in 1980 .

Coppola worked from 1984 to 1990 as a music producer for the television show Saturday Night Live . From 1990 he completed a jazz degree at the University of Southern California . He then taught as Adjunct Professor for Jazz Studies in the Music Department of the University of North Carolina in Asheville . He edited the textbook Jazz Standards for Piano and worked with the singer Lucianne Evans in the duo Evans and Coppola ( Hold Back the Rain , 2000). He also played in his Tom Coppola Trio .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b UNCA Jazz Studies ( Memento from June 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ imdb.com Saturday Night Live
  3. ^ Review of AllAboutJazz

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personal data
SURNAME Coppola, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coppola, Thomas Wilkinson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American fusion musician (piano, arrangements)
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1945