Clarinetist, Bandleader
Tom frequently performs in all major New Orleans jazz venues including Snug Harbor, Preservation Hall, Irving Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse, the New Orleans Jazz NHP at the Mint, the Bombay Club, the 21st Amendment, among others. Leading two to three times a week the New Orleans Jazz Band at the renowned Fritzel's European Jazz club on Bourbon Street (Tom Fischer and friends), his other weekly appearances include Arnaud's Jazz bistro, The Palm Court Jazz Café, The Palace Café, as well as the Steamboat Natchez.
Since 2007 Tom's main tours have included New York City with Henry Butler's Steamin' Syncopators (Metropolitan Museum of Art) as well as Don Vappie (Zankel Hall at Carnegie), Moscow with Konstantin Gevondian and again the Ascona Jazz Festival (2012) as a regular member of the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band with it's present leader Gerald French. Actually the oldest Jazz band in the world, it was founded by Papa Célestin as early as 1910.