Thomas Doggett has been an active performer and educator for over 20 years and enjoys all styles of music.
Thomas began 2013 by performing in Gent, Belgium at the 3rd European Clarinet Festival with his wife Cynthia. The Duo performed Mad Rush to the End by composer Charles Savage. Mad Rush was the first of many works written for Thomas and Cynthia.
Tommy plays a TM Custom tenor saxophone designed by Randy Jones at Tenor Madness and an EWI4000s: Electronic Wind Instrument by AKAI.
Tommy’s teachers include Greg Banaszak and Bob Reynolds
In 2008, Tommy became a member of Corey Taylor’s Junk Beer Kidnap Band. Throughout 2009, JBKB performed at clubs and festivals including Rockfest in Kansas City, Lazerfest in Des Moines, End of the Summer Scorcher in Phoenix and the Key Club in LA.
At the beginning of 2011, Tommy joined the Free Style Variety Band. Prior to that, Tommy regularly performed with Des Moines’ premier R&B/Funk group One Nite Stand.
Tommy is featured on Cleo's Apartment's 2010 release: Off At The Shoulders and the 2012 Axis Manifest film production: Flick
Thomas was an ASCAPlus Award recipient in 2006 and 2007.
As an educator, Thomas has taught at Muskingum College, Ohio University-Zanesville, Kent State, Hiram College, Cincinnati School for the Creative and Performing Arts, College of Mount St. Joseph, South-Western Community College and Central College.
Originally hailing from Covington, Kentucky, Tommy established himself throughout Cincinnati, Ohio as a performer with Lo-Fi (2006 Cincinnati Entertainment Award (CEA) nominee "Best Funk”), The 4Track All-Stars (2005 CEA: Best Hip-Hop) and Two Turntables and a Saxophone (“One of the Top bands to see at Midpoint Music Festival in 2004” Citybeat).
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Show Announcement! June 27 Vaudeville Mews, Des Moines
I’ll be performing with Cleo’s Apartment & Electric Universe on Monday June 27th at the Vaudeville Mews in Des Moines. I’m featured on Cleo’s recent CD: Off At the Shoulders. Here’s the band bio to learn more:
A new breed of Hip-hop/acid jazz from Des Moines, Iowa, Cleo’s Apartment is the house party you never want to leave. With tenants playing turntables, keyboards, and live drums, the Apartment takes cues from Public Enemy, Miles Davis, Portishead, The Roots and everything in between to produce a sound foreign to corn and sure to keep a crowd panting for more. Listening to Cleo’s is sort of analogous to stumbling upon a basement full of old vinyl. So many rich sounds are available to your ears, and every time you start idly browsing, you hear something you’ve never heard before. Combining elements of soul, hip hop, jazz, rock, and storytelling, Cleo’s is a veritable bottomless pit of potential Cleo’s has shared the stage with performers like Brother Ali, Digable Planets, Eoto, Rebirth Brass Band, Mike Giles, Maxilla Blue, Roxi Copland, Martin Dosh, Colourmusic, Algernon, Small Sails, The Blend, and Tommy Doggett, to name a few on a substantial list of goods and greats. Within the first minute of any song, the listener knows they’ve found something intense and different. From track to track, Cleo’s Apartment sends sounds anywhere from sweat-inducing drum and bass grooves to the cool collapse of a Rhodes keyboard. From start to finish, Cleo’s will grab a crowd and not let go until the last record has been scratched. Also on the bill that night is a group I’m very excited to hear: Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble: www.destijlmusic.com/jcde.html (includes links to high res photos)
“redefining musical boundaries” San Francisco Classical Voice 9/1/09 Midwest Tour June 25 – July 6, 2011 Chicago IL, Madison WI, Des Moines IA, Minneapolis MN Experimental / Electro-acoustic / Contemporary Classical / Avant-Garde / Instrumental Performed and recorded live with no overdubs. Use of hardware electronics only, no software. Similar or comparable to: Neu!, Toru Takemitsu, Monolake, Cluster, Philip Glass Ensemble, John Zorn, Thomas Adès, The Residents, John Cage, Cabaret Voltaire The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble is an internationally recognized new music group that combines acoustic instruments, electronic hardware, composed material, and structured improvisation. Hear analog synthesizer treated as a rare and unpredictable performance instrument! The Ensemble’s contemporary electro-acoustic music is performed and recorded live, with no overdubs or sequencing. The Ensemble has played chamber concert series, new music series, galleries, and alternative performance spaces nationwide, including The Tank (NYC), AS220 (Providence RI), The Lilypad (Cambridge MA), Meridian Gallery (SF), Cafe Du Nord (SF), and Trinity Chamber Concerts (Berkeley). The Ensemble has presented extensive programs of live music to experimental film. In 2010, the Ensemble attracted global attention with concerts of Depeche Mode’s Violator, performed entirely live, start-to-finish, with a complement of strings arranged by Jack Curtis Dubowsky, to mark the album’s 20th anniversary. This June the Ensemble releases its third full length album and CD, Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble III. It continues the tradition of a brainy mix of nocturnal ambient tracks, slow jams, and funky krautrock. The Ensemble features Jack Curtis Dubowsky on Roland Jupiter Six and bass, and Fred Morgan on drums and percussion. Dubowsky and Morgan met at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and have played together as the Ensemble since 2008. Dubowsky has an extensive catalog of concert music distributed online by Sheet Music Plus and Theodore Front Musical Literature, Inc.
Cleo’s Apartment: interview in Juice
In this week’s issue of Juice, there is a full page article about Cleo’s Apartment:
“…starting as a more improvisational, electronica-focused group consisting of just [Mike] Huss and DJ Jeff Blanchard. Adding [vocalist Crystal] Fields meant the group’s songs became more structured…Rapper Aeon Grey and saxophonist Tommy Doggett collaborated on the album…”
“The recording process was fun. We pretty much threw any kind of tech we had in the room at the same time,” Huss said. ”Digital things, analog things, whatever media we could use to texture and edit sounds.”
If you’re not going to see One Nite Stand this Saturday at Prairie Meadows Casino, go see Cleo’s Apartment at The Vaudeville Mews.
Read the full article here
