Clayton Thomas
Clayton Thomas (* 1976 in Hobart , Tasmania ) is an Australian jazz and improvisation musician ( double bass ).
Live and act
Thomas started as an autodidact in Sydney at the age of 24. a. Lessons from Wilber Morris , Henry Grimes and Peter Kowald . He works in the field of improvised, electronic and electroacoustic music; The first recordings were made in Australia in the early 2000s with Chris Abrahams and Jim Denley. In Sydney he is the founder of the 30-person ensemble The Splinter Orchestra , the NOW now Festival and the concert series if you like improvised music, we like you .
In 2009 he released the solo album Bad Self (Gutstring). I.a. he worked with Johannes Bauer , Jeb Bishop , Marilyn Crispell , Tobias Delius , Mary Halvorson ( Map , 2002), Tony Buck , Willi Kellers , Max Nagl , Vesna Pisarović , Sonny Simmons , Pat Thomas , Mikolaj Trzaska , Gebhard Ullmann and Ken Vandermark . In 2009 he performed with Anthony Pateras at the SWR New Jazz Meeting . He also works with his own trio, which includes Michael Thieke and Steve Heather .
In the field of jazz he was involved in ten recording sessions between 2002 and 2009. From 2007 to 2015 he lived in Berlin, since then back in Sydney.
Discographic notes
- CODE , with Ken Vandermark, Wolfgang Reisinger , Max Nagl
- Christian Marien / Matthias Muller / Clayton Thomas: Astronomical Unit: Relativity (2008)
- Axel Dörner , John Schröder , Clayton Thomas, Oliver Steidle : Das Treffen (Jazzwerkstatt, 2009)
- AUS: Live in Nickelsdorf, Austria (Jazzwerkstatt, 2009), with Johannes Bauer, Tony Buck, Thomas Lehn
- Raymond Strid / Clayton Thomas / Pat Thomas : Wazifa (2010)
- Transatlantic: Bassx3 ( Leo Records 2012), with Chris Dahlgren , Gebhard Ullmann
- Paul Hubweber , Frank Paul Schubert , Alexander von Schlippenbach , Clayton Thomas, Willi Kellers : Intricacies ( NoBusiness Records , 2015)
Web links
- Clayton Thomas website
- Clayton Thomas at Allmusic (English)
- Clayton Thomas at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brief portrait at Abroad-Berlin
- ↑ http://www.steffan-claussner.de/pages/page15.html
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 17, 2013)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thomas, Clayton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian jazz and improvisation musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hobart |