Bebop Sam Thomas

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"Bebop" Sam Thomas (actually Samuel Thomas, * around 1927 in Evanston (Illinois) ; † September 3, 1988 ibid) was an American jazz guitarist who was active in the music scene in Chicago .

Live and act

Sam Thomas attended DuSable and Walter H. Dyett High Schools in Chicago; He began his musical career in the mid-1950s in the vicinity of Sun Ra ; to hear u. a. on Great Balls of Fire (album Sound Sun Pleasure !! ) and with his band The Cosmic Rays (on Spaceship Lullaby (1954-60) , Atavistic). In the following years he worked on recordings by John Klemmer ( Involvement , 1967), James Brown and Bobby Byrd ; he also played with Jack McDuff and Gene Ammons , to whom he dedicated his composition Will 'n the Jug .

With the band Spaceship Love , whose co-leader he was in the 1970s, he appeared in 1979 at the Chicago Jazz Festival . With the band Sam Thomas recorded the album Out at Last under his own name in 1983 , which was released in 1987 on the Tee-Ni-Chee label and on which he worked with Warren Dennis (piano), Daniel Carthane and Kenneth Clark (tenor saxophone), Harrison Bankhead and Scott Black (bass), Joe Jenkins (drums) and Maja Rios (vocals, lyrics) played. Thomas, who lived his life on Chicago's South Side, returned in later years to his native Evanston, where he died in 1988 at St. Francis Hospital.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  2. ↑ See Robert L. Campbell: The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra . Cadence Jazz Books, Redwood (NY) 1994
  3. ^ Review of the album (2003) at All About Jazz
  4. ↑ Sam Thomas at Allmusic (English)
  5. ↑ Bob Rusch: Review in Cadence (1994), Volume 20
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chicagojazz.com
  7. ^ Obituary in Chicago Tribune
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Bebop Sam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomas, Samuel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Evanston (Illinois)
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1988
Place of death Evanston (Illinois)