Pat Thomas (pianist)

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Pat Thomas (born 27 July 1960) is a jazz pianist from Oxford, England.

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Biography

Thomas was born in Oxford. [1] His first album as sole leader was New Jazz Jungle: Remembering, which was released in 1997. [1] He received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in 2014. [2] Several of his recordings were released in 2019: "from the ruminative post-bop piano trio heard on BleySchool, the free improv of the collective trio Shifa, an exploratory trio with reedist John Butcher and drummer Ståle Liavik Solberg on Fictional Souvenirs and a stunning live solo piano set of Duke Ellington music available digitally from London's Cafe Oto". [2] Thomas is part of the band Ahmed, a quartet with Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Seymour Wright inspired by the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik; their New Jazz Imagination was released by Umlaut in 2017 and was followed by Super Majnoon (East Meets West). [2]

Two Thomas albums were released in 2024: the solo piano The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku) and the electronics-based This Is Trick Step (577). [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Wright, Seymour (January–February 2025). "Invisible Jukebox: Pat Thomas". The Wire . No. 491/492. p. 25.
  2. 1 2 3 Margasak, Peter (April 2020). "Thomas: Prolific, Unheralded". DownBeat . Vol. 87, no. 4. p. 20.


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