Pat Thomas (born 27 July 1960) is a

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Biography

Thomas received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists in 2014. 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

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". Thomas is part of the band Ahmed, a quartet with Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Seymour Wright inspired by the music of

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; their ''New Jazz Imagination'' was released by Umlaut in 2017 and was followed by ''Super Majnoon (East Meets West)''.

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External links

*http://www.blacktopmusic.org/ Black Top (project with Orphy Robinson) official site * *http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/mthomas.html *http://ukvibe.org/interviews/2014-interviews/pat-thomas-2014/ * *https://discus-music.co.uk/catalogue-mobile/dis103-detail Pat Thomas plays Anthony Braxton Living people 1960 births English jazz pianists English jazz composers English experimental musicians Avant-garde jazz pianists Musicians from London 20th-century English musicians 21st-century English musicians Incus Records artists FMR Records artists Emanem Records artists Psi Records artists {{UK-jazz-musician-stub