16 Facts About Tom Harrell

Tom Harrell was born on June 16,1946 and is an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger.

Tom Harrell received a Grammy Award nomination for his big band album, Time's Mirror.

Tom Harrell was born in Urbana, Illinois, United States, but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area at the age of five.

Tom Harrell started playing trumpet at eight, and within five years he was playing gigs with local bands.

Tom Harrell performed with Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Hall, Ronnie Cuber, Bob Brookmeyer, Lionel Hampton, Bob Berg, Cecil Payne, Bobby Shew, Philip Catherine, Ivan Paduart, Joe Lovano, Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra, Charles McPherson, David Sanchez, Sheila Jordan, Jane Monheit, the King's Singers and Kathleen Battle among others.

Tom Harrell is featured on Bill Evans' final studio recording, We Will Meet Again, which won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Group.

Since the early 1990s, Tom Harrell has toured and performed with his own groups of various sizes and instrumentation.

Tom Harrell has arranged for Vince Guaraldi's work on Peanuts, Carlos Santana, the Metropole Orchestra, the Danish Radio Big Band, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, and Elisabeth Kontomanou with the Orchestre National de Lorraine, among others.

Tom Harrell's compositions have been recorded by other jazz artists including Ron Carter, Kenny Barron, Art Farmer, Chris Potter, Tom Scott, Steve Kuhn, Kenny Werner and Hank Jones.

Since 1989 Tom Harrell has led his own groups, usually quintets but occasionally expanded ensembles such as chamber orchestras with strings, and big bands.

Tom Harrell has appeared at most major jazz clubs and festival venues, and recorded under his own name for such record labels as RCA, Contemporary, Pinnacle, Blackhawk, Criss Cross, SteepleChase, Chesky, and HighNote.

In June 2012, Tom Harrell debuted his nine-piece chamber ensemble at the Highline Ballroom as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival.

Tom Harrell arranged the music of Debussy, Ravel, and his own compositions for this ensemble, which consists of trumpet, soprano and tenor saxophones, c-flute and bass flute, violin, cello, acoustic guitar, piano, bass, and drums.

Tom Harrell considers the arrangements and compositions some of the most challenging works he has written to date.

Tom Harrell recorded with TRIP, a piano-less quartet featuring saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Adam Cruz in 2013.

Tom Harrell premiered the suite with six sections he wrote specifically for this group.