Legends beget legends, which explains why Tommy Igoe is one of the world’s great drummers. His father, Sonny Igoe, was a legendary jazz drummer before him, and Tommy is a product of both nurture and ...

Tommy Igoe had a good thing going in New York City. The widely respected jazz drummer and his powerhouse big band regularly attracted a full house of devoted fans to Friday nights at Birdland, one of ...

Led by East Coast drumming icon Tommy Igoe, the Birdland Big Band delivers powerful performances each Friday night at New York's renowned Birdland jazz club. Eleven captures Igoe and some of the ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A night of jazz comes full circle onto the Pasant Theatre stage when the renowned Birdland All-Stars featuring Tommy Igoe come to the Wharton Center on Saturday, Feb. 24. The ...

Tommy Igoe's locks frequently flop in his face, not unlike those of the late jazz great Gene Krupa, as he sits behind his Yamaha drum kit front and center on the stage of Yoshi's in San Francisco. He ...

VAIL — The coordination required of playing the drums is not ingrained in many of us, but Tommy Igoe’s father, legendary drummer Sonny Igoe, claimed his child was born with the beat. “He always said I ...

You get the feeling that keeping a secret is not Tommy Igoe’s strong suit. The tall, lanky drummer is the leader of the 12-piece Groove Conspiracy, and whenever and wherever the group finds a home, ...

When Tommy Igoe migrated from New York City to Mill Valley, the first thing he did was soundproof a back bedroom for a recording studio. The second thing he did was assemble 15 crack session men for ...

MARIN HAS BEEN home to some great drummers — the late Tony Williams, (Miles Davis), Narada Michael Walden (John McLaughlin, Jeff Beck) Steve Smith (Journey, Vital Information). And now Tommy Igoe, who ...

Like many other corners in that amorphous room called jazz, big band jazz has grown more abstract and experimental since its heyday in the 1930s. This process is necessary for the creative evolution ...