Gary Thomas

Gary Thomas in Munich (2002)

Gary Thomas (born June 10, 1960) is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist from Baltimore, Maryland. He is a member of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition band and has worked with John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Greg Osby, Wayne Shorter, Ravi Coltrane, Cassandra Wilson, Wallace Roney, Miles Davis, Steve Coleman, as well as numerous other premier jazz musicians. He currently serves as Director of Jazz Studies at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore.

Discography

As leader

• The Seventh Quadrant (1987)
• Code Violations (1988)
• By Any Means Necessary (1989, with John Scofield, Dennis Chambers)
• While The Gate Is Open (1990)
• The Kold Kage (1991)
• Till We Have Faces (1992, with Pat Metheny, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 1993)
• Exile's Gate (1993)
• Overkill (1995)
• Found On Sordid Streets (1997)
• Pariah's Pariah (1998)

As sideman

With Jack DeJohnette

• Irresistible Forces (MCA, 1987)
• Audio Visualscapes (1988)

With Greg Osby

• The Invisible Hand (Blue Note, 1999)

With Tony Reedus

• Incognito (1989)

With Wallace Roney

• Verses (1987)
• Intuition (1988)
• The Standard Bearer (1989)
• Obsession (1990)

With Lonnie Plaxico

• So Alive (2004)
• West Side Stories (2006)

With Terri Lyne Carrington

• Jazz is a Spirit (2002)

With Ingrid Jensen

• Higher Grounds (1999)

With Peter Herborn

• Traces of Trane (1992)
• Large One (1997)
• Large Two (2002)

External links

• Thomas's page at the Peabody Institute
• Article on Thomas in Baltimore newspaper