Tom McDermott (musician)

Tom McDermott is a pianist and composer born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1957.

He began studying piano at age seven,[1] became a professional musician at 16, and received a Master of Music degree from Washington University in St. Louis in 1982.

In 1994 he co-founded and wrote arrangements for the innovative brass band the New Orleans Nightcrawlers.

Since 2001 he has devoted much time travelling to Brazil, where he has studied and recorded choro music.

In 2017, Sagging Meniscus Press published "Five Lines, No Waiting", a book of his limericks and drawings.