Tom Johnson

Saxophones, Clarinet

Since 1999, Tom Johnson has played baritone saxophone and bass clarinet with the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, with whom he has performed concerts with jazz artists Hank Jones, Monty Alexander, Paquito D’Rivera, Wycliffe Gordon, Maria Schneider and Dee Dee Bridgewater, among many others. He attended the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in studio music and jazz after studying with Jerry Coker, Bill Scarlett and Donald Brown. In addition to his woodwind playing with the KJO, Johnson has performed on piano with many notable Knoxville-based musicians, including fellow KJO members Bill Scarlett and Don Hough, as well as saxophonists Rocky Wynder and Lance Owens. Johnson also founded, arranged music for, and played with the Blackstick Four clarinet quartet, https://www.facebook.com/TheBlackstickFour
whose members have included fellow KJO members Bill Scarlett, Greg Tardy and Mark Tucker. Since 1994, he has directed the jazz band and taught woodwinds and jazz piano at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville.