Coming Home: The CVJO Welcomes Tom Luer!

Tom Luer is a Los Angeles based saxophonist, a member of Poncho Sanchez’s Latin Jazz Band, and is a D’Addario Woodwinds Performing Artist. His album "Project Popular" was released in 2011 to critical acclaim. Recent recording credits include the Grammy winning album “Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra, John Beasley’s Grammy nominated albums “MONK’estra:Volume 1, 2, and 3” Dave Slonaker’s Grammy nominated “Intrada” and Grammy winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling's "The Brill Building Project". Tom has also recorded with Lee Ritenour, the Alan Chan Orchestra, Laura Dickenson, the Mike Barone Big Band, Wayne Bergeron Big Band, Cooper Phillips, the Bicoastal Collective, Oliver Future and more. Music from Tom’s CD was featured in nationally broadcast promos by National Public Radio. Tom can also be heard on the soundtrack of the films “Daddy’s Home”, “Let Them All Talk”, and “One Night in Miami” and has performed music for television shows such as HBO’s “The Penguin” and Apple TV’s “Peanuts”.

Tom’s television appearances include the NBC’s “The Voice”, the NBC broadcast of “Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Beautiful” and the “X-Factor” on Fox, the American Music Awards, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and the Ellen Degeneres Show. Additional performance credits and tours include John Beasley’s “Monk’estra”, Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band, Chucho Valdez, Poncho Sanchez, Queen Latifah, Loston Harris, Tom Wopat, Patrizio Buanne, Engelbert Humperdinck and many more.

Tom is currently a faculty member at Cal Poly Pomona, Director of the Jazz Band and the Applied Saxophone Professor. He has formerly served on the faculty of the Los Angeles College of Music, Texas Christian University, the University of North Texas, and Bethel College-Newton, KS. Tom also served as the Jazz Program Director and teaching instructor for the Shell Lake Arts Center in Shell Lake, WI.