Tommy Z

Life and career Born Tommy Zabielski in Hamburg, New York, United States, It was produced by Nick Blagona.

In 2006, Tommy Z played rhythm guitar on Ian Gillan's album, Gillan's Inn, on the remake of the Deep Purple B-side "When a Blind Man Cries," which also featured work by Jeff Healey and Jon Lord. In the same year, Tommy Z contributed to Michael Lee Jackson's album In a Heartbeat, which was recorded at the Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Tommy Z performed at Thursday at the Square in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2011.

In April 2010, Tommy Z performed at the Washington Monument for FreedomWorks' Take Back America 2010 campaign to an estimated 50,000 people. He and his band continue to tour appearing at music festivals both in the United States and elsewhere. He is a Canisius College graduate, an oftimes guitar teacher, and has composed music for film and TV including Ryan and Sean's Not So Excellent Adventure, Last Comic Standing (NBC), Animal Planet's Swamp Wars (main title), and America's Next Top Model. In 2015, Tommy Z was employed as the new blues radio DJ by WBFO. In 2022 he created his own 24/7 blues radio station called WBLZ Blizzard of Blues Radio. Tommy Z wrote eight of the tracks on the album, which were partly inspired by both his experience of driving in blizzard conditions on Route 219 in New York, and the loss of a friend and business associate. The album was recorded in 2015 at Robby Takac's GCR Audio recording studio, with Tommy Z undertaking full production and some engineering duties.

The Tommy Z Band was chosen as the headliner for the 2019 and 2020 Buffalo Ball Drop, the second biggest New Year's Eve celebration of its kind in the country with crowds estimated at 40,000. Tommy Z travelled to Nashville, Tennessee, in January 2020 to work on Blizzard of Blues'''s follow up, called Plug in and Play'', with the record producer Tom Hambridge. It was released on May 2, 2021.

Discography Albums Year Title Record label 1999Live at the Barn: The TributesOhmega 2005 Universal Love South Blossom Records 2013 Sometimes South Blossom Records 2016 Blizzard of Blues South Blossom Records 2021 Plug in and Play South Blossom Records