Pat Thomas

Thomas was born in Oxford and began playing jazz piano at age 16 driven by a fascination for Liberace's instruments. His first album as sole leader was New Jazz Jungle: Remembering , which was released in 1997. He 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 Cafe Oto ".

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