Thomas Hultén is a trombone player, arranger and composer. Thomas is currently Acting Principal trombone with the Houston Grand Opera and is recording a solo-CD to be released by Tierra Records by Sept. 2009.
He started playing at the age of ten in the local Salvation Army Band in his hometown of Katrineholm, Sweden. After completing his military service with the Swedish Army Band in 1984, he studied trombone performance at the Gothenburg Conservatory with Ingemar Roos as his primary teacher. After graduating he won a position with the Bohus Big Band, one of Sweden’s two professional big bands. In 1990 Thomas became a member of the Hässlö Brass Ensemble (later re-named Messing Around), a full-time brass ensemble, along with being Principal trombone of the Västerås Sinfonietta.
He was also a sought-after freelance player, and has performed with the Gothenburg Symphony, the Gothenburg Opera, the Helsingborg Symphony, the Norrköping Symphony, Stavanger (Norway) Symphony and the Trondheim (Norway) Symphony.
Since moving to Houston, Texas, in 1997 he has performed with Ray Charles, Tony Bennett, Dave Brubeck, Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow, Patti Austin, Johnny Mathis, Michael Bolton, the Moody Blues, the Temptations, the Four Tops and the O’Jays. He performs regularly with the Houston Symphony, the Houston Ballet, the Houston Grand Opera and Theatre under the Stars. Thomas was in the orchestra for the touring Broadway musicals “The Full Monty”, “The Producers”, “42nd Street”, “Music Man”, “All Shook Up”, “Swing” and, most recently “The Rat Pack” at the Hobby Center in Houston. He has been featured at the Texas Jazz Festival and the Kemah Jazz Festival with his own group, and at the International Trombone Festival, both as a soloist and as a member of “Spiritual to the ‘Bone”. His quartet opened for Maynard Ferguson’s Houston concert in February of 2006.
Thomas teaches low brass at the Houston Baptist University and the Houston Community College, and directs the jazz ensemble at the Tomball College. His wife Tina is a microbiologist at Baylor College of Medicine, and they have three sons, Jakob, David and Philip.
im diggin the day by day song. along with messin around. me bein an admirer of jazz u got my approval on it. stay doin ya thing. i write poetry so lemme know any means of promo i can use.
congrats on your trombone recording!, My band, EE Magic Circus Band, is also out of the recording studio, and getting ready for a mini-tour with some of us to the Burning Man Festival, yahoo. Keep cool.
Thanks for the add. I really enjoy your music. My favorite of the 4 availiable is Interlude Number 4. I really enjoy the swing feel to it. I can not wait to hear what else you have to offer on your album that is coming out, and I will recommend you to my former jazz professors. We are always looking for a new insperation. They are for music, and me in my art work. Thank you again.
Definitely, I joined my middle school jazz band when I was 13 and played in school jazz bands from then until I graduated college. I always loved playing jazz trombone more than any other genre. I am teaching now and I don't get to play as much, I hope to get a Jazz group together though, I miss it. You sound great on your recordings by the way. You have a very unique sound and I'm really digging it.
Hey Thomas, thanks for the add and the comment... yes I love jazz - Miles Davis is my guru... check out my song "Nappy's Boogie" on my "Live & Blue" cd and you'll hear the jazz influence (in my top friends, or on CD Baby) Your friend in music, Gary Brown (Bushmaster)
Very much a lover of jazz. I'm lucky I love near the UNT campus. Their college radio plays nothing but jazz 24-7. Really good stuff. From standards to off the wall sounds.
yeah I'm mostly into fusion (Return to Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Allan Holdsworth) but I love Mingus, Miles, Coltrane, Monk... and newer stuff like Skerik and Dave Douglas...
absoluteley, though I lean toward the madder side of the road, listening to Ornette Colman's "Free Jazz" right now. The stuff you have on your page is real cool, the sound captured has a great vibe! You can check out my band here: http://www.myspace.com/thepolarbearblackoutfever
I do like jazz a lot although I feel very amateur in my appreciation of it. I like slower piano stuff for the most part but it seems like I am always finding something new and exciting. I keep my MySpace page with a rock theme just to stay even and I have a better grasp on that genre. Admittedly I do not know many trombonists but I really like what I heard on your page, very resonating in tone.
