Tommy Smith

Tommy Smith

KARMA

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2011, Spartacus Records

Tommy Smith's KARMA

Hailed on arrival by critics as the toughest and most creative group of his career, Tommy Smith's KARMA sees the brilliant Scottish saxophonist lead a band of virtuosic musicians on a deeply grooving acid jazz adventure that draws on influences from around the world. [read more]

Next concerts:

  • 24.05.2012
    the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra featuring Randy Brecker in Lanark, Scotland at Greyfriars Church
  • 25.05.2012
    the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra featuring Randy Brecker in Edinburgh, Scotland at Queen’s Hall
  • 26.05.2012
    United Kingdom — the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra featuring Randy Brecker in Glasgow at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

News

May 6, 2012

8 more days until voting!

Longlist Announced Inaugural Longlist of twenty albums announced winning artist to receive £20,000 prize Thursday 12th April, The Scottish Music Industry Association (SMIA) is delighted to announce the inaugural longlist for The Scottish Album of the Year Award. Featuring the twenty highest scoring titles to emerge from the award’s exhaustive nomination process, the list champions an eclectic ...

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December 4, 2011

video “Numbers”

Tommy Smith & East West European Jazz Orchestra

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November 23, 2011

Tommy Smith’s Karma / PELbO

Tommy Smith's latest band Karma opened this concert, drummer Alyn Coskerblasting in for a full-on assault. Karma - also the name of Smith's latest album - sees the saxophonist in jazz-rock mode. Joining Smith and Cosker were pianistSteve Hamilton and bass guitarist Kevin Glasgow. Cosker provided the motive force - a powerful drummer, he's equally adept ...

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July 29, 2011

Tommy Smith’s inadvertent radicalism

Scots saxophonist Tommy Smith returns to his and some other jazz roots with his new album Karma as well as paradoxically making a perhaps inadvertently radical statement. He tours the music in Scotland in late June and later elsewhere (see below). Tommy SmithI don’t think I’ve heard a better Tommy Smith record since his breathtaking Berklee ...

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June 10, 2011

“Visceral precision and imaginative interplay”

Karma,  Spartacus ***** Tommy Smith’s new quartet includes pianist/keyboardist Steve Hamilton and drummer Alyn Cosker off his 2005 Forbidden Fruit album, but this no less brilliant successor is very different. New is Kevin Glasgow on six-string electric bass, and the lingua franca has become an amalgam of Scottish, Irish and Arab folk elements ...

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