René Thomas

Among the finest Western european jazz guitarists to emerge through the 1950s, René Thomas appeared on many classes with Americans through the following few decades. Affected as you might anticipate by Django Reinhardt, Thomas was mainly self-taught and by the 1950s he was a significantly in-demand cool-toned guitarist, playing in a method just like Jimmy Raney’s. Furthermore to carrying out with the very best European jazz music artists, Thomas caused Chet Baker (1955), resided in Montreal during 1958-1963, used Toshiko Akiyoshi and Sonny Rollins, was back European countries by 1963, and through the following few years caused Kenny Clarke, Lou Bennett, and Han Bennink among numerous others. Through the 1969-1972 period, Thomas was an associate of Stan Getz’s Western Music group (with whom he documented Dynasty). He passed away of an abrupt coronary attack in Spain when he was 47. Being a head, Thomas documented for Vogue (1954), Barclay, Polydor, Jazzland (1960), RCA, Royal Jazz, as well as the Italian Vogel label (1974).