Tom Mitchell is a swing/jazz guitar player and singer rooted in the styles found in 1920’s and 30’s jazz, western swing, country blues and old-time music.  He has happily been both sideman and leader for a great variety of musical endeavors. In addition to singing and playing guitar, he’s played mandolin, banjo, tenor or tiple when the need arose. After ten years of touring with Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks, Tom has found a home in Baltimore and can be seen there playing with lots of great players and bands including the Blue Rhythm Boys and the Redwine Jazz Trio. At the age of twenty, he joined his first western swing band, playing music that most folks had never known or had long since forgotten.  He spent his days hunting through piles of dusty 78’s, listening to and learning the music that had captured his imagination.  A few years later, he was spending long nights playing for both swing and square (!) dances, sometimes backing up dancers including the great Lindy Hop pioneer Frankie Manning. During that time he was lucky enough to play with some of the  DC Jazz greats, including old-timers like Al Seibert and Ted Efantis; and he made Brooks Tegler‘s standing gig on Sunday afternoons at the Inn at Glen Echo his religion.