Fred Tompkins St Louis, Missouri
Fred Tompkins completed his early studies of music in St. Louis but lived in NYC from '72-'90 where he wrote and recorded
compositions for a wide variety of small ensembles to include Elvin Jones, David Liebman, Richard Davis and many other great musicians.
Interested in forging his own style of jazz/classical synthesis, he also wrote vocal works to poetry by Keats, Dickinson & Michael Castro.
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