Pat Thomas

Pat Thomas is a British pianist and electronics player, born in Oxford in 1960 to Antiguan parents. Derek Bailey invited him to Company Week in 1990 and 1991; he later played in Tony Oxley's quartet and in duo with Lol Coxhill. Since the late 1980s he has used computers and samplers alongside the piano, as on New Jazz Jungle: Remembering (1997). He co-leads Black Top with Orphy Robinson and plays in Ahmed, a quartet devoted to the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik. His solo piano records for Otoroku include The Elephant Clock of Al Jazari and The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir.