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Tom Reed, Drums & Percussion
Tom Reed holds a master’s degree in percussion performance from the University of Maryland,
College Park. He grew up in north-central Pennsylvania, playing drums in local jazz and rock
groups and performing with several drum and bugle corps (Milton Keystoners, Reading
Buccaneers). While a mallet instrument specialist in the 1980s, playing vibraphone with The
Howland Ensemble, Tom’s compositions were part of the group’s eponymous recording, which
received the 1986 WAMMY Best Jazz Album and Best Debut awards. On the strength of that
recording, Musician magazine included the ensemble in their 1988 Best of the Unsigned Bands
compilation, Best of the BUBs (Warner Bros. PR4757), judged by Elvis Costello, Mark Knopfler, T-
Bone Burnett and Mitchell Froom.
Tom took an extended hiatus from performing in the late 80s and early 90s to devote full attention
to his photojournalism career, spending that time as a photographer for The Associated Press
(Washington, D.C., bureau), covering the White House, Capitol Hill and all the amazing follies and
foibles of the national political scene. He recently retired from the AP, after spending the last
decade as a supervising photo editor in the company’s State Photo Center in Washington.
Over the last half-dozen years, Tom has devoted himself exclusively to drumming, leaving mallet
playing to others, and in a kind of “return to personal basics,” once again finds himself playing
small-group jazz and Latin styles, performing as a snare drummer with area drum corps (Baltimore
Yankee Rebels, Hanover Lancers, American Originals Fife and Drum Corps), teaching privately, and
composing and arranging for a variety of ensembles.
Tom Reed holds a master’s degree in percussion performance from the University of Maryland,
College Park. He grew up in north-central Pennsylvania, playing drums in local jazz and rock
groups and performing with several drum and bugle corps (Milton Keystoners, Reading
Buccaneers). While a mallet instrument specialist in the 1980s, playing vibraphone with The
Howland Ensemble, Tom’s compositions were part of the group’s eponymous recording, which
received the 1986 WAMMY Best Jazz Album and Best Debut awards. On the strength of that
recording, Musician magazine included the ensemble in their 1988 Best of the Unsigned Bands
compilation, Best of the BUBs (Warner Bros. PR4757), judged by Elvis Costello, Mark Knopfler, T-
Bone Burnett and Mitchell Froom.
Tom took an extended hiatus from performing in the late 80s and early 90s to devote full attention
to his photojournalism career, spending that time as a photographer for The Associated Press
(Washington, D.C., bureau), covering the White House, Capitol Hill and all the amazing follies and
foibles of the national political scene. He recently retired from the AP, after spending the last
decade as a supervising photo editor in the company’s State Photo Center in Washington.
Over the last half-dozen years, Tom has devoted himself exclusively to drumming, leaving mallet
playing to others, and in a kind of “return to personal basics,” once again finds himself playing
small-group jazz and Latin styles, performing as a snare drummer with area drum corps (Baltimore
Yankee Rebels, Hanover Lancers, American Originals Fife and Drum Corps), teaching privately, and
composing and arranging for a variety of ensembles.
