Pat Thomas (pianist)
Pat Thomas (born 27 July 1960) is a jazz pianist from Oxford, England.
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]External links
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- Pat Thomas at AllMusic
- http://ukvibe.org/interviews/2014-interviews/pat-thomas-2014/
- Pat Thomas discography at Discogs
- https://discus-music.co.uk/catalogue-mobile/dis103-detail Archived 25 June 2022 at the Wayback Machine Pat Thomas plays Anthony Braxton
- https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/20/piano-virtuoso-pat-thomas-on-his-journey-through-jazz-ahmed
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