Clayton Thomas

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Clayton Thomas im Schlot, Berlin 2007

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.

Clayton Thomas in Club W71 , Weikersheim 2010
Clayton Thomas Aarhus Denmark 2016
Photo Hreinn Gudlugsson

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief portrait at Abroad-Berlin
  2. http://www.steffan-claussner.de/pages/page15.html
  3. Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 17, 2013)