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Ron Thomas: 17 Solo Piano Improvisations
by Budd Kopman
Music is the language of sound, of vibrations; and hence, at a basic level, of physics. The history of Western music is an effort to understand and control how these vibrations interact and relate to each other, always with an ear towards how they affect the listener. Music's emotional affect on us is its greatest mystery. ...
Ron Thomas: Wings of the Morning
by Budd Kopman
Pianist Ron Thomas has led an extremely interesting life, musically and otherwise, and it is distilled into the lovely and intense set of pieces on Wings of the Morning, originally recorded in 1978, and now reissued on CD. Training from a young age to be a concert pianist, Thomas eventually realized that the ...
Cycles
By Ron Thomas
Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: CD1: Cavatina; Temple of Artemis; Is It Ulysses?; Ancient Boundaries; Electric Sheep (Dream of the Android); Desert Music for the Inner Ear. CD2: Hannibal; Miles Beyond; Hour of the Wolf; Damascus; Apollo's Taxi.
Ron Thomas/John Swana/Joe Mullen: Cycles
by Dan McClenaghan
Many jazz pianists have a grounding in the classical side of music. Ron Thomas's anchoring may be deeper there than most. His back-to-back piano trio outings, Doloroso (Art of Life Records, 2006) and Music in Three Parts (Art of Life Records, 2006), explored some very alluring, loose sound shapes shaded by his classical side in a ...
Doloroso
By Ron Thomas
Label: Art of Life Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Doloroso; Ars Poetica; Two Five One; Other Music; No Straight Lines; Here; De Profundia.
Music in Three Parts
By Ron Thomas
Label: Art of Life Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Impromptu; Caprice; Impromptu 2; Caprice 2; Improptu 3; Epilog.
Ron Thomas Trio: Doloroso
by Dan McClenaghan
Ron Thomas took a few years off since his last CD release, the excellent House of Counted Days (2002). But just this year, the pianist, a commsumate musical artist, has offered up two stellar piano trio outings, Music in Three Parts and Doloroso.Thomas employs similar limitations for both of these sets. In the case ...
Ron Thomas Trio: Music in Three Parts
by Dan McClenaghan
Relative simplicity and a complete lack of pretense are two features that make Music in Three Parts such a standout sound. The disc's six tunes are based on three different musical figures: the three “Improptus" on a figure in D minor; the two “Caprices" on a figure in C major; and the final “Epilog" on a ...
The Jazz Artistry of Ron Thomas: Interfacing Jazz and Classical Music
by Victor L. Schermer
Ron Thomas' persona reminds me a bit of the Archangel Gabriel, who appears on all those great Renaissance paintings playing the trumpet, except that Ron is a pianist. Ron, like Gabriel, stays in the background, but has a big influence on what goes on, and you know he's always up to something musical while affecting the ...
The House of Counted Days
By Ron Thomas
Label: Vectordisk
Released: 2003
Track listing: Fancy of Fate, Code Red, Lines Where Beauty Lingers, Tough Nut, Ones
and Eights, The House of Counted Days, Lucky Cuss, Blue Glass
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