Tom Salvatori - Guitar Composer

RELEASED March 25, 2022 - Apocalypse music, after 46 years in a dusty old storage bin, FINALLY sees the light of day thanks to Steve Krakow (Music Writer/Historian aka Plastic Crimewave), Sara Gossett (Dreamscapes and Nostalgia Artist) and the…

A collection of my original solo nylon string guitar suites, composed to evoke the nature and sentiment of each of the four seasons

1. Springtime Suite in E Minor (2013) - A season of April showers and May flowers... 

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It was June 6, 2023, and my brother Mike and I attended a CSO concert at Symphony Center in Chicago. We enjoyed the 3 French impressionist pieces (Debussy's La Mer and Ravel's La Valse and Menuet Antique). These pieces were…

Home (Is Where I Want to Be) - Tom Salvatori...the 1977 single release that never was :)

Here's a fun video to post...in addition to the 1974 reel-to-reel tape found in that old box of sheet music, there was also…

Babylon: Traditional - Arranged for Nylon String Guitars by Tom Salvatori, 1974

Sooooo...here's quite a recent find! While going through an old box of sheet music I found a reel-to-reel tape of one of my first multi-track recording efforts...a traditional…

July 6, 2023 - FINALLY! At long last we have finished the production of the slide show that was envisioned to accompany the RESPITE GUITAR IN NATURE SUITE. If you ever need a 30 minute escape from the rattle and…

Solo Nylon String Guitar Compositions by Tom Salvatori  

A Year in the Life is an album of all-original solo nylon string guitar compositions conceived to evoke the nature and sentiment of each appropriate month of the year. I compose in…

Imagine my surprise. Just after paying homage to my favorite guitar heroes on my recently released “Parlour Favorites (2016)” album…and just as I was arriving at the pinnacle of peace and tranquility as a composer - I was…

Let’s hear it for the underdog, for the second string, for the runner-up, and for all of the creative works in this world that wind up sliced, diced and edited out.  

So therein lies the theme of this album...it’s a…

A Road Map Through the Veiled References: 

1……..  The Time in Nick’s Bottle…..4.34 

In this piece, a tip of the hat goes to Nick Drake’s Fruit Tree and Jim Croce’s Time in a Bottle.  More than likely, their influence is…

It was August 10, 1994, and I spent the evening alone. With my family safely tucked away at Eagle River, I tinkered with a bottle of Amaretto Di Saronno and what has now become the core of this recording. 

As…

In no particular order...

1. The Grays - Ro Sham Bo

2. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Pale

3. Brian Vander Ark - Resurrection 

4. REM - Automatic for the People 

5. E - A Man called E 

6. Eels…

Guys in the studio sometimes disagree, or agree to disagree just to stir the pot...play a joke...start a rumor...whatever...just to get under each other’s skin once in a while. I suppose the same thing happens in the military, in the…

The best way to get a real kick to the stomach is to ask your family members to listen to your music and to please render an opinion. Remember, these are the people who have seen you in your underwear…suffered…

I sometimes think that one of the best ways to ruin a piece of music is to take pen to paper and start writing lyrics. It occurs to me that adding lyrics can be fraught with difficulty; and oft-times reveals…

EARLY FAMILY LIFE

I was born on December 29, 1958, and I grew up in Famiglia Salvatori, a family of seven siblings from a western Chicago, Illinois suburb named Elmhurst. I ranked right in the middle among our seven brothers…

Funny thing is, being a composer is a lot like being a fisherman. Please bear with me as I explain. To be a fisherman, one needs to enjoy the sport of fishing dearly in and of itself and without condition…