Upright Bass
Room: FA 022
Tom Baldwin, jazz bassist, composer, and educator, was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. After earning a BM in Jazz Studies at Ithaca College, he returned to the Baltimore-Washington metroplitan area and is now among the most in-demand bassists of the region. In 1995, Baldwin was the second place finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Bass Competition.
Since that time, he has had the opportunity to work with a slew of prominent jazz artists. A partial list would include instrumentalists Eric Alexander, Gene Bertoncini, Stanley Cowell, George Garzone, Tutti Heath, Fred Hersch, Brian Lynch, Harold Mabern, James Moody, and James Williams, as well as vocalists Michael Feinstein, Eartha Kitt, James Naughton, and Kenny Rankin. He has performed at such venues as Blues Alley, The Kennedy Center, Baird Auditorium, The Corcoran, Wolftrap, and Twins Lounge.
Baldwin's deput CD, Glom On To This, was just released this past fall. Featuring all original compositions, it is a showcase for his writing and arranging skills, as well as his playing. He also appears as a sideman on over a dozen other CD's.
An active teacher and clinician, Baldwin is the jazz bass instructor at the University of Maryland, College Park, and has participated in IAJE summer workshops in Montgomery County for the past three years.
