Tommy Newsom
Thomas Penn Newsom
Born: 25th February 1929 Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
Died: 28th April 2007
American jazz saxophonist and composer
He played in the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, for which he later became assistant director. He joined the band in 1962, and left it when Carson retired in 1992. He also performed and arranged for musicians such as [a=Benny Goodman], [a=Charlie Byrd], [a=Woody Herman], [a=Vincent Lopez] and [a=Louis Bellson].
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