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Tommy Poole
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Tommy Poole is Director of Jazz Studies and assistant professor of music at Oklahoma State University. An active saxophonist and woodwind doubler in a variety of genres, he has recorded as saxophonist on numerous CD's ranging in style from classical, to jazz, to pop. He has performed professionally with Ramsey Lewis, Diane Schuur, The Woody Herman Orchestra, Andy Montanez, Joe Williams, and Mercer Ellington among many others. 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
Angular Tuesday
By Tommy Poole
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Time Check; Angular Tuesday; Wyrgly; Latin Dance; Kids Are Pretty People; Pools; Blues and
the Abscessed Tooth; Mira Mira.
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Jack Bowers
On a personal note, this is unlike any “best of the year" summaries I've written during my more than twenty-five years as a reviewer for All About Jazz. The reason is that I fell in late April and broke my left femur. As a result, I completed no reviews from that time until early September, a ...
OSU Jazz Orchestra: Angular Tuesday
by Jack Bowers
The splendid Oklahoma State University Jazz Orchestra seldom pauses for breath on Angular Tuesday, its third album under director Tommy Poole. The ensemble enters as though shot from a cannon on Don Menza's frenzied “Time Check," and keeps on swinging and swaying through a lively program that encompasses sunlit compositions by Maria Schneider, Bob Mintzer, Thad ...
Last Horizon
By Lee Puckett
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Alien Intro, Rope-A -Dope, Brain Tweezer, Freakin' Blues, Horsefly Holler, Dulces Suenos, Vulture Culture, Master Of
Naan, September Sun, Lost Horizon
Room 118
By Tommy Poole
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Tuning Up; Art of the Big Band; Dolphin Dance; To You; 5 ½ Weeks; Dubious Dachshund;
Nutville; Fillmore Street Mambo; I’ve Got What?
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 ...
Solid Gold
By Tommy Poole
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: You Dig?; Solid Gold; Decisions; Out Front; Gorgeous Gwen; Discussao; Good and Terrible; After You’ve Gone.
OSU Jazz Orchestra: Solid Gold
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." ...
Out Front
By Tommy Poole
Label: NSU Jazz Lab
Released: 2015
Track listing: Out Front; Back in Tahlee; Forastero; Reflections; 3 2 Waltz; Calle Fortaleza; Chelsea Bridge; Bues for Roddy; Killer Who?; Maybe Next Time; Simple Song.
