Citadelic festival 2023 

MAY 28 - 18H                    MAIN STAGE

   Pat Thomas Duke Ellington solo  (UK)
            personal tribute to Duke Ellington

Pat Thomas (born 27 July 1960) is a jazz pianist from Oxford, England. studied classical piano from aged 8 and started playing Jazz from the age of 16. He has since gone on to develop an utterly unique style - embracing improvisation, jazz and new music. He has played with Derek Bailey in Company Week (1990/91) and in the trio AND (with Noble) – with Tony Oxley’s Quartet and Celebration Orchestra and in Duo with Lol Coxhill.

"Sartorially shabby as Thomas may be, and on first impression even rather stolid, he has a somewhat imperious charisma that’s immediately amplified when he starts to play. Unlike other pianists whose virtuosity seems to be racing ahead of their thought processes Thomas always seems supremely in command of his gift, and his playing, no matter how free and ready to tangle with abstraction, always carries a charge of authoritative exactitude."
The Jazzmann

Pat Thomas - piano

OTHER CONCERTS MAY 28

credits photographs
Paul Van Gysegem met Kim Van Den Brempt @ Cees van de Ven
FES live @ Willem Van Cauwenberghe

 

with the marvelous support of De Vlaamse Gemeenschap and de Stad Gent