Tom Delaney Sax

TOM DELANEY Saxophone and Flute Composer/Arranger

TOM DELANEY's career began in and around New York City, playing clubs and concerts with the likes of the Platters, the Temptations and the Coasters while still a teenager. He later graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston with a degree in music arranging/composition. While at Berklee, Tom's student band included Keith Jarrett, Harvey Mason, John Abercrombie and Miroslav Vitous.

Tom has also played with Stevie Wonder, David Clayton Thomas, Hoyt Axton and Toots Thielmans, among others, and was a featured soloist with the Buddy Rich big band. As a member of various Reno-Tahoe hotel-casino house orchestras, Tom has played with stars such as Linda Rondstadt, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Sammy Davis and Mel Torme. Tom was chairman of the music department at Sierra Nevada College, and his own big band was the house orchestra in the Headliner Room of the North Tahoe Cal-Neva hotel-casino.

He's currently a member of the Free Play Saxophone Quartet. In addition to playing gigs around Reno-Tahoe, Tom supplies bands for conventions and other functions and teaches sax, flute, clarinet, arrangement & theory at a Reno music store. He has his own music publishing company.

See Tom at Sunday brunch at Sterlings at Silver Legacy Casino/RENO 9a-2p.

BIO and Photo (C) Copyright 2007 Tom Delaney All Rights Reserved

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