Jon Thorne

Jon Thorne at the Rudolstadt-Festival 2017

Jon Thorne (born 12 February 1967) is an English double bassist, producer and composer.

Career

His debut album Manchester Road was released through SAM LTD/ EGEA records in 2006 featured 12 original compositions of jazz with pianist Steve Brown and drummer Luke Flowers. ^[1]

Jon also plays double bass in the band Kiiōtō, including on their debut album As Dust We Rise. ^[2]

Selected discography

Solo

• Homestead - album 2020
• Watching the Well - album 2010
• Manchester Road (as Jon Thorne's Oedipus Complex) - album 2006

With Yorkston/Thorne/Khan

• Navarasa: Nine Emotions - album 2020
• Neuk Wight Delhi All-Stars - album 2017
• Everything Sacred - album 2016

With Lamb

• Backspace_Unwind - album 2014
• 5 - album 2011
• Live at Koko - album 2011
• Remixed - album 2005
• Best Kept Secrets - album and DVD 2004
• Between Darkness and Wonder - album 2003
• Fear of Fours - album 1998
• Lamb - album 1996

Other collaborations

• Wildfires, Polly Paulusma - album 2025
• Humm, Malojain - album 2020
• Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home, Malojian - album 2017
• Hypoxia, Kathryn Williams - album 2015
• Salvor, Falselights - album 2015
• Charms Against Sorrow, Hannah Sanders - album 2015
• The Sea, Martha Tilston - album 2014
• Definitely Now, Liam Bailey - album 2014
• The Cellardyke Recording And Wassailing Society , James Yorkston - album 2014
• Crown Electric, Kathryn Williams - album 2013
• Phonograph, Jesca Hoop - single 2013
• Great Lakes, John Smith - album 2013
• World Without Form, Nat Birchall - album 2013 ^[3]
• Machines of Love and Grace, Martha Tilston - album 2012
• I Was a Cat from a Book, James Yorkston - album 2012
• As the Sun Comes Up, Jay Leighton - album 2011
• Thirteen , Robert Miles - album 2011
• Snowglobe, Jesca Hoop - album 2011
• Oh My Days, The Memory Band - album 2011
• Lucy and the Wolves, Martha Tilston - album 2010
• One Good Thing, Lou Rhodes - album 2010
• Map or Direction, John Smith - album 2009
• Folk Songs, James Yorkston - The Analogue Catalogue Sessions, CD/DVD 2009
• Ninja Tuna, Mr Scruff - 2008
• Hairy Bumpercress, Mr Scruff - 12" 2008
• Bloom, Lou Rhodes - album 2007
• Migrating Bird, The Songs of Lal Waterson - Various (with James Yorkston) - album 2007
• Cortina Deluxx - Debut EP 10" vinyl 2006
• Of Milkmaids and Architects, Martha Tilston - album 2006
• Beloved One, Lou Rhodes - album (as composer) 2006
• Miles/Gurtu, Robert Miles/Trilok Gurtu - album 2004
• Back to Mine LP, MJ Cole - album (with The John Ellis Big Bang) 2002

References

1. Walters, John L (21 July 2006). "Jon Thorne's Oedipus Complex, Manchester Road". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 June 2010.
2. Kiiōtō - As Dust We Rise, 12 July 2024, retrieved 5 September 2025
3. "IoS album review: Nat Birchall, World Without Form (Sound, Soul and Spirit)" . Retrieved 13 November 2024.

External links

• Official website