(Jazz Big Band / Third Stream / Post-Bop / Hard Bop) [WEB] Bill Evans, Scottish National Jazz Orchestra - Beauty &The Beast - 2016, FLAC (tracks), lossless

Biography:
Award-winning Scottish saxophonist-composer-educator Tommy Smith is a creative force in improvised music performing in settings from solo to symphonic concerts and is one of Europe’s leading musicians. He has recorded 24 solo albums as a leader for Blue Note Records, Linn and his own label Spartacus Records and worked with stars like Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Jack DeJohnette, Kenny Barron, Arild Andersen, Trilok Gurtu and John Scofield.
Tommy Smith is Artistic director of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s jazz course, and holds three doctorates from Heriot-Watt, Glasgow Caledonian & Edinburgh Universities and a Professorship from the RCS. His latest album KARMA won him his 6th Scottish Jazz Award for album of the year in 2012.
Born in Edinburgh in 1967, Tommy won best soloist and best group titles at Edinburgh International Jazz Festival, aged 14, and recorded his first album at 15. After studying at Berklee College of Music he joined Gary Burton’s group, touring worldwide and recording the Whiz Kids album on ECM. He signed to Blue Note Records in 1989, later moving to Linn Records before forming his own Spartacus label.
He has now released twenty-three solo albums, including The Sound of Love, which reached No. 20 in America’s Gavin Jazz Chart, has premiered four saxophone concertos and presented television and radio programmes for the BBC and Channel Four. His awards and honours include a BBC Heart of Jazz award, Best Woodwind at the inaugural Scottish Jazz Awards (2008), the Scottish Jazz Expo Award (2009) and honorary doctorates from Heriot-Watt and Glasgow Caledonian universities. He founded the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra in 1995, formed the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra in 2002 and is currently touring widely with Arild Andersen as well as heading Scotland’s first full-time jazz course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
from www.snjo.co.uk

release date: 28.10.2016