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Tommy Poole
Poole’s arrangements/compositions have been featured on at least eight CDs. His first three CD's as producer featured compositions, arrangements, and performances by Poole and received critical acclaim from AllAboutJazz.com, JazzEd Magazine, Outside in Music, Currentland, and Oklahoma Magazine. Poole’s latest CD, Solid Gold feat. Michael Dease (2017) received four stars from All About Jazz. “The OSU ensemble is exemplary… add multi-talented Michael Dease to the mix, stir emphatically and the upshot is a tasty banquet that’s sure to quicken the appetite of almost any champion of straight-ahead big band jazz.” Jack Bowers, All About Jazz
Poole has presented workshops, or served as guest artist, or guest conductor at California State University Long Beach, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles City College, Pittsburg State University, University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), and University of Illinois. He has served in similar fashion for countless regional and national conferences and festivals. His research on metric modulations has been published in Jazz Inside Magazine.
He received his BM and DMA from The University of Texas at Austin and his MM from The University of Miami.
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OSU Jazz Orchestra: Room 118
by Jack Bowers
Room 118 honors the space in the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts wherein the splendid Oklahoma State University Jazz Orchestra and other on-campus jazz groups held their rehearsals for many years. There must be something special there, as the OSU ensemble is one of the most well-rehearsed university-level jazz ensembles you're likely to encounter this side of the University of North Texasand even that comparison marks a very close call. Director Tommy Poole had the band burnished and ready ...
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by Jack Bowers
Having overseen one impressive Jazz Studies program, at Northeast (OK) State University in Tahlequah, Tommy Poole has moved on to Oklahoma State University in Stillwater where he seems well on the way to repeating that success. The subtitle of Solid Gold, the first recording under Poole's direction by the OSU Jazz Orchestra, reads featuring Michael Dease." And featuring" is no understatement here. Not only does the Grammy award-winning and DownBeat magazine Rising Star trombonist solo (superbly) on every number, Dease ...
read moreNSU Jazz'Tet: Out Front
by Jack Bowers
The NSU Jazz'Tet is comprised of seven students (and one faculty member, director / saxophonist Tommy Poole) from the Jazz Studies program at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK. Together they present an assortment of small-group jazz that is scrupulously modern yet firmly grounded in the music's time-honored traditions. Bop is a salient part of their vocabulary, as are blues, ballads, Latin rhythms, funk and even a waltz. Besides putting their best foot forward musically, most members ...
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