Work with really good band directors and meat great professional teachers from the public school system. He still managed to stay in contact with the world of drum corps by writing percussion scores for high schools. School drumming awards on the United States East coast, Tommy Igoe left the Bayonne Bridgemen to focus on his gigging career. In 1983, and after capturing various junior and senior high Those were not only Tommy Igoe’s first gigs, but also his first professional ones. The coolest thing about those gigs was that Tommy was getting paid for doing them. Tommy Igoe did that wedding and was actually called back to do the remaining dates from the band’sįall wedding season. It was with a wedding band whose drummer hadn’t show up for a gig. Tommy Igoe’s first gig came at the age of 16.
Tommy Igoe had a successful audition and joined the 1981 Bridgemen drumline as a bass drummer. So in 1980, a 15-year-old Tommy Igoe convinced his father to let him audition for the Bayonne Bridgemen. Curiously,ĭennis DeLucia was the man writing music for them. By the end of that decade Tommy Igoe had a new favorite drum corps to root for, the Bayonne Bridgemen. With a junior drum corps from Hawthorne, New Jersey called the Hawthorne Muchachos – Tommy Igoe’s favorite drum corps at the time. Tommy Igoe first heard of Dennis DeLucia through the work he had developed in the mid-1970s They gave me that same passion and for that I am truly grateful.” – in “Tommy Igoe: 5 Minutes”, Hudson Music’s website.
They were passionate about their art, and their commitment to education. As a matter of fact, if you aren’t going to do it all the way, don’t do it at all. I mean, it’s really okay to throw yourself in as far and as deep as you can. But mostly, they showed me by example that it’s okay to care about this thingĬalled music. “ (…) They showed me lots of important musical things. At the age of 15 Tommy Igoe began working on his drumming with two great and influential teachers:ĭarryl Bott, a band director from New Jersey, and Dennis DeLucia, a Drum Corps legend. During that time, Tommy Igoe took time to study classical and jazz piano as well. Through various books on rudimental drumming that further nurtured his appreciation for military-inspired snare work.įrom his early days into his early teenage years Tommy Igoe was taught by his father. For the following years, Sonny Igoe would take Tommy Igoe Tommy Igoe’s exposure to the music and drumming of the marching parades his parents took him to see, played a huge role in his love for drumming and for the art of rudimental drumming. To play on it – he’d rather play on the “real” thing. Although it was perfect fit for him, Tommy Igoe refused So it could fit Tommy Igoe’s small stature, Sonny Igoe used the 16 inch floor tom as a bass drum and got some mini stands to go along with the set. Igoe himself converted into a junior drum set. It was a black Slingerland drum set that Sonny Tommy Igoe got his first drum set at the age of 3. Tommy Igoe began drumming when he was a 2-year-old toddler. Before he couldĮven walk, Tommy Igoe was already using knitting needles to drum on everything around him. However, growing around music and having a father as a drummer quickly shaped little Tommy Igoe’s likings. Knowing the shortcomings that cameįrom working in the music business, Sonny Igoe tried steering Tommy Igoe in a different direction. His father, Sonny Igoe, had been making a name for himself as an educator and drummer since the early be-bop era, playing with guys like Benny Goodman and Woody Herman. Tommy Igoe was born to a very musical family.
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