LC control no. | no2005107021 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Vaughn, Tom |
Variant(s) | Vaughn, Thomas Wade |
Birth date | 19361014 |
Death date | 20110304 |
Place of birth | Benton, Ky. |
Place of death | Riverside, Calif. |
Profession or occupation | Jazz pianist Episcopalian priest |
Found in | Jazz in concert at the Village Gate [SR] 1966: label (Tom Vaughn, piano) Cornbread (Meat loaf, greens & deviled eggs), 1967: label (Father Tom Vaughn) Wikipedia, via WWW, August 23, 2012 (Tom Vaughn (musician); Father Tom Vaughn was an American Jazz pianist and Episcopalian priest; born Thomas Wade Vaughn on October 14, 1936 in Benton, Kentucky; he graduated from Eureka College in Illinois with a degree in history while playing piano in area clubs; he earned a doctorate in theology from Yale Divinity School; he entered the Episcopal priesthood, and in 1964 his first position was assistant to the rector at St. John's Episcopal Church in Midland, Michigan; he left St. John's Church in Midland in 1967 and moved to Los Angeles, where he played in festivals and concerts during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and appeared on local television and national talk shows; Vaughn joined St. Martin-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Winnetka, California in 1968; he was installed as rector in 1976, the year he recorded his last album, Joyful Jazz; he retired from active ministry in 1984; Vaughn died March 4, 2011 in Riverside, California) |