Joe Thomas

Joe Thomas will be best known while the tenor soloist with Jimmy Lunceford’s Orchestra. He was originally an altoist using Horace Henderson but turned to tenor when he became a member of Stuff Smith’s group. Like a celebrity with Lunceford from 1933 before leader’s loss of life in 1947, Thomas got many brief but often-memorable solos and got many vocals. After Lunceford’s unforeseen loss of life, Thomas and pianist Ed Wilcox went the ghost music group to get a year. Afterwards, Thomas by himself recorded a number of R&B-oriented edges, he still left music in the middle-’50s to perform his father’s commencing business, and through the 1960s on he came back to performing on the part-time basis, slicing a program in 1982 for Uptown. He’s not to end up being confused using the fine golf swing trumpeter Joe Thomas.