The first recording by my new trio T3 with Phil Palombi - bass, Scott Neumann - Drums and myself on Tenor. It is a hard hitting, straight-ahead tenor trio playing mostly standards with few originals mixed in.

Fee Fi Fo Fum

Pit Jazz

Just In Time

Isfahan

In A Sentimental Mood

Dear Old Stockholm

Juice

Airegin

Another project done in Logic Pro on my mac with tenor overdubs

Tabla Tenor Groove

A Midsummernight's Tango

Tom Christensen was educated at The Eastman School of Music where he received both his Bachelors and Masters degrees. Christensen is now an established saxophonist, woodwind specialist and composer in New York City. For eight years he was a member of The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra and performed with the Orchestra around the world. He can be heard on their latest recordings as well as on Grammy nominated albums with Joe Lovano, Paquito D’Rivera, David Sanchez and Don Sebesky. Christensen has also performed with The Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, David Liebman, the BMI Jazz Composer’s Orchestra and The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He has played saxophone and woodwinds for many Broadway shows, television and radio commercials and numerous film scores. The Tom Christensen Ensemble was formed in 1994 to play Christensen’s original compositions. In 2003 Christensen was awarded a composition grant from Chamber Music America to write and perform an extended work for the ensemble based on the poetry of Frank O’Hara. This piece is featured on his 3rd CD “New York School” released in February 2005 on Playscape Records. “New York School” was listed as one the top ten jazz albums of 2003 by All About Jazz. Christensen’s latest project “The Kailash Trio” featuring Tim Sund and Tomas Ulrich released its second CD on Nabel records and completed a tour of Germany in 2007 and the US in 2010.

About “New York School

"Horn multi-instrumentalist Tom Christensen's third release in six years is
a pleasure from start to finish because it manages to simultaneously embrace
thought and emotion, interweaving the two in constantly evolving, often
unpredictable ways. Some of the starkest and most penetrating moments come
through on 'In Memory of My Feelings,' which pairs bass clarinets and
soprano saxophone with deep, ringing, ritualistic percussion, communicating
a sense of melancholy loss matched with a seemingly paradoxical feeling of
rebirth. One of the best records of 2005."	
Nils Jacobson, AllAboutJazz.com

Multireedist Tom Christensen likes the New York School of Art and its house
poet, Frank O'Hara, so much that he conceived his new recording as a
tribute. But this quartet has none of O'Hara's talkiness of the sort of
form-adverse music that painters like Jackson Pollock tended to inspire.
It's smart, finely tailored postbop with an emphasis on craftsmanship over
flash - just the sort of session that guitarist Michael Musillami would pick
for his label, Playscape, which has come to specialize in this sort of
no-nonsense modern jazz.
Aaron Steinberg, Jazz Times August 2005

About Christensen’s 2nd CD “Paths”
A remarkably varied, original, and arresting work.
							The Boston Globe
About Christensen’s 1st CD “Gualala”

Mr. Christensen has put together a good, playful, modern-sounding record in his new ''Gualala'' (Naxos). Among its best ideas are the double-woodwind front line, which he shares with Charles Pillow; the open-ended structures of the music; and the rhythm section, pairing the rustle of Satoshi Takeishi's ancient-sounding frame drums and hand percussion with the no-nonsense drive of the bassist Ben Allis			  				
The New York Times


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