Tommy Smith (saxophonist)
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Thomas William Ellis Smith is a Scottish jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator.
Tommy Smith 111 2018 Derek Clark Photo
Tommy Smith conducting the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra featuring special Guest Courtney Pine in 2014
Smith recording his epic Modern Jacobite piece with The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Wester Hailes
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Wester Hailes is an area in the south west of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Tommy Smith (saxophonist)
…born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Scottish parents Brenda Ann Urquhart, and father, William John Ellis, whom he never met. Smith was brought up in the Wester Hailes area of the city, where he was encouraged by his stepfather, George Smith, an avid jazz fan and drummer in the Gene Krupa style, to take up the tenor…
Union Canal, Wester Hailes
Edinburgh's Old and New Towns