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TOMMY PELTIER born in the
land of jazz, New Orleans, and got his first instrument, a silver trumpet, at age
ten and took to it immediately. Three years later moved with his mother to
Hollywood, California where he put together his first group, a Dixieland band. After
one year of college was drafted into the U.S.A where he spent two years honing his
arranging and improvisational skills with the Navy Band. After the Navy, on a casual
gig, Tommy Peltier met up
with saxophonist Charles Lloyd, bassist Bill Plummer and drummer Don Joham. That
meeting would turnout to be the beginning of long and beautiful friendships. Around
that time Tommy Peltier
hooked-up with tenor player Charles Brackeen and pianist Joann Brackeen to form a
group. They played few gigs, but would often sit-in with Howard Rumsey’s Lighthouse
All-stars, Charles LLoyd and Teddy Edwards’s bands.
After Charles and Joann moved to New York,
Tommy Peltier formed a
pianoless group called The Jazz Corps. Freddy Rodriguez was on reeds, Bill Plummer
on bass, Maurice Miller on drums and
Tommy Peltier was playing cornet and writing the charts
for the band. After a couple of years they would add Lynn Blessing on vibes. The
band was a regular at The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach.
In 1999 Tommy Peltier
hooked up once again with his old pal Bill Plummer (Jazz Corps) to do an album
entitled “The Frog’s Breath Saloon,” out on Plastic Echo Records. Visit his home
page at:
http://www.tommypeltier.com/ |
