Jay Thomas (musician)

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Jay Thomas (* 1949 in Seattle ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , saxophone , flutes ) who is in the tradition of multi-instrumentalists such as Benny Carter and Ira Sullivan .

Live and act

Jay Thomas' father was a trumpeter in Seattle, who attended school with Jack Sheldon and was heavily influenced by bebop . Accordingly, Jay grew up listening to the music of Art Blakey , Clifford Brown and Miles Davis . After high school, playing with Seattle musicians including Jack Brownlow , Floyd Standifer and Freddie Greenwell , he attended the Berklee School of Music . He then moved to New York, continued his studies and played a. a. with Machito and James Moody . In the mid-1970s he lived in the San Francisco Bay Area , in 1978 he returned to Seattle, where he played a. a. at Parnell's Jazz Club with George Cables , Charles McPherson , Bill Mays , Harold Land , Diane Schuur and Slim Gaillard ( The Legendary McVouty , 1982). under his own name he released Easy Does It ( Discovery Records ) and Blues for McVouty on Stash Records, in which he was accompanied by Cedar Walton and Billy Higgins .

As a session musician, he has been involved in over 60 albums, to hear a. a. on recordings by Buck Clayton , Herb Ellis ( Roll Call 1991), Bud Shank ( On the Trail ) and Jessica Williams ( Joy 1996). He also played in the big bands of Mel Lewis , Maria Schneider , Bill Holman and Frank Wess , at festivals with Red Rodney , Ira Sullivan, Herb Ellis, Jake Hanna and Chuck Israels .

Discographic notes

  • 360 Degrees ( Hep Records , 1992)
  • Rapture ( Jazz Focus , 1994)
  • 12th and Jackson Blues (McVouty Records, 1999)
  • Song for Rita (Merrimack, 2000)
  • Live at Tula's, Volume 1 and Volume 2 (McVouty Records, 2001)
  • Streams of Conciousness (Pony Boy, 2007) with John Stowell
  • The Cats - Neo-Boogaloo (Pony Boy, 2013), with John Hansen, Chuck Kistler, Adam Kessler
  • Soul Summit! Live at Mr. Kenny's - Dedicated to Kenny Dorham (Cug, 2013), with Yoshirō Okazaki
  • Jay Thomas with the Oliver Groenewald Newnet: I Always Knew (Origin, 2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review of the album 360 Degrees by Dave Nathan at Allmusic . Retrieved October 23, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Jay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn, saxophone, flutes)
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle