Tommy Smith

Person · Open Library

Works

15

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1969-08-06

Active to

2003-10-21

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

4,334

Total plays

36,600

Tommy Smith (born 27th April 1967) is a Scottish jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. Smith grew up in the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh, and was encouraged to learn the tenor saxophone from the age of twelve onwards. At the age of sixteen, he obtained a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music; there he joined Gary Burton's group. He has become one of Scotland's leading jazz musicians and composers, an internationally recognised <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tommy+Smith">R

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

   · 1997 · cited 48,635x

2. Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances

   · 1956 · cited 42,296x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,455x

4. GROMACS: High performance molecular simulations through multi-level parallelism from laptops to supercomputers

   · 2015 · cited 25,304x

5. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,422x

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Quotes

• “I have never started a fight in my life but I have finished a few... sometimes I shudder when I think about what I have done.”
• “If Shankly was the Anfield foreman, Paisley was the brickie, ready to build an empire with his own hands."”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Smith

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

Edinburgh

Occupation

bandleader

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Officer of the Order of the British Empire

Genre

rhythm and blues

Instrument

tenor saxophone

Record label

Blue Note

Official website

www.tommy-smith.co.uk/index.html

Image

TommySmith-111-2018-DerekClarkPhoto.jpg

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