The New Orleans Jazz Museum and the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park present a live hour of piano music featuring Tom Hook on Thursday, August 17th, at 2pm CDT.

This program takes place inside our third floor Performance Center, listening room. Admission is free and open to the public, seating is limited and offered first come, first serve.

Enjoy Jazz Music from home with the New Orleans Jazz Museum! Join the Jazz Museum online for our daily Live-Stream Concert Series, in which dynamic musicians perform live from the Jazz Museum! Tune in at 2pm on https://www.facebook.com/nolajazzmuseum/live to watch for free.

Tom Hook

Musician songwriter Tom Hook began his career in Kansas City Missouri, performing in local in regional jazz and rock bands, as well as working as a stage performer at Worlds of Fun theme park. He was a founding member of the New Red Onion Jazz Babies, a regional “trad” jazz favorite.

Leaving Kansas City in 1980, Tom began a long association with the Delta Queen Steamboat Company. During his 1985 tenure on the DQ, 1986 found Tom in Orlando, FL working as a staff musician at Walt Disney World. While in Orlando, Tom also worked in Bill Allred's Good Time Jazz Band at Rosie O’Grady’s at Church Street Station, and with his own vintage rock band, The Terrier Brothers, at the Orchid Garden. During the same time period, Tom also had the unique opportunity to record a progressive rock project with Kansas City based Ancient Vision at Ian Anderson’s (Jethro Tull) studio in Barford-St, Michael, UK.

Tom has continued to tour the world with multiple  trips to Europe, the Mid-East, South America, Malaysia, and annual trips to Japan with Tom Fischer's New Orleans All-Stars. When not on tour, Tom performs nightly in New Orleans and on board the American Queen and Queen of the Mississippi Riverboats with his own New Orleans All-Stars (fronted by legendary trumpet man Wendell Brunious) and with his own one-man show "Becoming Jelly Roll". The All-Stars also make regular appearances at world renowned Preservation Hall.

Over the years Tom has performed as voice talent on various radio and television jingles for entities as diverse as the Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City Kings, Budweiser, McDonalds, H&R Block, and Walt Disney World. Tom also has delved into the world of cyber entertainment, producing and recording period music for a series of war games developed by John Tiller for HPS Simulations. 

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