This versatile pianist and composer has worked and studied with some of the greatest musicians alive performing and recording music in a diverse range of styles.  Known for the heartfelt quiet ambience of his economical solo piano style, and his fresh harmonic approach and stylistic synthesis as a jazz composer, Tom is currently collaborating on a new CD of original music by himself and by Jon Crosse, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and Paul Anka's music director, and Randy Tico, bassist and composer of a wide range of music, and other members of the ensemble. Tom has also recorded original jazz works with studio greats Steve Tavaglione, Mike O Neill, Jon Crosse, Randy Tico, Greg Lee, Mark Cranney, Ron Wagner, Efrain Toro, and Mike Fisher under the auspices of the Free Parking Jazz Composers’ Ensemble in L.A., and has performed live with traditionalists Benny Carter, Mundell Lowe, Warne Marsh, Dave and Larry Koonse, Bill Plummer, and Raul De Souza, as well as other great contemporary jazz artists like Brandon Fields, Sam Riney, Gerald Albright, Gary Willis, pianist David Benoit and even Lee Oskar, and many others.   BA, music theory and composition, w/honors, UC Riverside, 1974. 

Tom studied jazz piano with Ron Hoopes and Improvisation with Warne Marsh at the locally famous Berry & Grasmueck music store in Pasadena while beginning his music major at UCR.
While playing piano in the UCR jazz big band Tom met and began working with local saxophone prodigy Steve Tavaglione on other projects. After Steve's groundbreaking development of the band Caldera, including four years of recording and tours, Steve and Tom began production of the recordings that became the FREE PARKING JAZZ COMPOSERS' ENSEMBLE's first album DISGUISE/DELIMIT which garnered heavy rotation on KUTE-FM's "Quiet Storm" format in 1985. After working all kinds of piano jobs in Reno, Vegas, and L.A., in 2012 he was called to work at Clint Eastwood's Mission Ranch in Carmel playing standards on their Kawai grand for over 7 years. At that time Tom also got the chance to team up again with Jon Crosse, Randy Tico, Jim Christie, and Michael O'Neill to start work on a new CD of original material that is expected out after the first of the year, and Scott Kinsey has remixed and remastered our first LP, Disguise/Delimit, to be re-issued as a CD and/or digital downloads with three bonus tracks. It is now available, and the official CD release was  in Santa Barbara on July 13, 2025, at our concert in the SOhO music club, 1221 State Street.