Tom Gullion

Saxophonist Tom Gullion brings a deep, soulful performance style, a sophisticated avant-garde sensibility, and a quicksilver technique. Now, at the peak of his musical maturity, he is launching several new projects: a solo CD Catharsis, the ground-breaking group, Aspect Jazz featuring percussionist Ernie Adams, Chicago, and has even found time to organize the Driftless Jazz Festival in Southwestern Wisconsin. "Humbly walking in the footsteps of Sonny Rollins and other who have taken time for reflection in their careers, I've found my path is to bring music to the people. And that's exactly what these new projects are about."

Gear

Vintage Conn saxophones! Conn "Chu Berry" New Wonder II tenor and soprano saxophones (in both gold and silver plate)

Tom Gullion: Cat's Cradle

by Joel Roberts
November 1, 1999

On his new album on Britain's Naim label, Chicago tenor saxophonist Tom Gullion exemplifies one of the qualities too often missing among younger jazz musicians: patience. This is a supremely self-assured, unhurried effort emphasizing mood, tone and timing over mere technique and speed.

Gullion, who played in J.J. Johnson's band in his early twenties, has a rich, gentle tenor sound that owes a lot to middle-period Coltrane; which is to say he plays loping, harmonically complex lines that remain highly ...

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Recording

"Carswell": Adventurous Jazz by Saxophonist Tom Gullion

Source: Michael Bloom Media Relations
November 13, 2009

Saxophonist Tom Gullion Presents “Carswell" -- Adventurous Jazz on Momentous Records

Release Date: October 27 Musician, saxophonist, and composer Tom Gullion has built a reputation as an intuitive, emotional, and melodic player. During the past two decades, his varied career has included periods of intense performance and also of introspective creativity, and he has emerged as a major force in the contemporary jazz scene. Now, at the peak of his musical maturity, he is launching a new album entitled Carswell ...
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Carswell Reviews

Kevin Lynch voted Carswell as one of the top 10 new releases of 2009!

"...one of the most consistently strong jazz records to come out this year." by Pico

"In Carswell, not only does Tom Gullion play one sophisticated, angular, and inspired trad-n-fusiony sax (and occasional flute), he also gives his crew a hell of a lot of latitude to roust the hell out of each cut." by Mark S. Tucker

"A solid, muscular work from another hot player that's simply bubbling under and getting hotter all the time."