Tom Pletcher
Thomas Stewart "Tom" Pletcher (born May 29, 1936 - August 30, 2019 in Hanover , New Hampshire ) was an American jazz musician ( cornet , trumpet , flugelhorn , also vocals ) of traditional jazz.
Live and act
Pletcher grew up in Santa Monica, California and came into contact with jazz music at an early age; his grandfather Thomas Pletcher was a publisher of Piano Roll in the 1920s , his father Stew (1907–1978), a Yale graduate, was a jazz trumpeter , friend of Louis Armstrong and toured with Red Norvo in 1936/37 . Tom served in the Navy Reserves and later attended Santa Monica City College; he also worked as a golfer. In the 1960s he lived in White Lake on Lake Michigan and was in charge of the family business that manufactured aluminum weather vanes and household products. In later years, like his father, he was active as a professional jazz musician and recorded albums in the style of his idol Bix Beiderbecke . He was also a member of various bands, including from 1973 with The Sons of Bix , with whom he appeared at national and international jazz festivals. In 2004 he participated in Dick Hyman's album If Bix Played Gershwin . In the field of jazz he was involved in 38 recording sessions between 1973 and 2005, according to Tom Lord .
Pletcher was also involved in the soundtrack of the Italian film Bix: An Interpretation of a Legend (1991, directed by Pupi Avati ); he also founded the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Society and the Bix Centennial Band , with whom he played on the Bix 100th Birthday Cruise .
Discographic notes
- Tommy Gwaltney , George Masso , Cliff Leeman , Steve Jordan, Tom Pletcher, Bob Haggart , Dill Jones , Charlie Harmon: Pee Wee Russell 's Land of Jazz - A Memorial Tribute (Teaspoon Records, 1982)
- Bob Haggart Featuring Tom Pletcher: A Portrait of Bix (Jazzology, 1986)
- I'm Glad (Stomp Off, 2008), with Bent Persson , Goran Eriksson , Jens Lindgren , Holger Gross , Goran Lind , Christer Ekhe
Web links
- Tom Pletcher at Allmusic (English)
- Tom Pletcher at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Thomas S. Pletcher obituary. Lecacy.com, September 14, 2019, accessed September 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Steve Futterman: Dick Hyman / Tom Pletcher: If Bix Played Gershwin. JazzTimes, May 1, 2005, accessed September 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 19, 2019)
- ↑ Tom Pletcher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Review of Scott Yanow's I'm Glad album at Allmusic . Retrieved September 19, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pletcher, Tom |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pletcher, Thomas Stewart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (cornet) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1936 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 30, 2019 |
| Place of death | Hanover , New Hampshire |