Thomas was born in Oxford. His first album as sole leader was
New Jazz Jungle: Remembering, which was released in 1997. Several of his recordings were released in 2019: "from the ruminative post-bop piano trio heard on
BleySchool, the free improv of the collective trio Shifa, an exploratory trio with reedist
John Butcher and drummer Ståle Liavik Solberg on
Fictional Souvenirs and a stunning live solo piano set of Duke Ellington music available digitally from London's
Cafe Oto". Thomas is part of the band Ahmed, a quartet with Antonin Gerbal, Joel Grip and Seymour Wright inspired by the music of
Ahmed Abdul-Malik; their
New Jazz Imagination was released by Umlaut in 2017 and was followed by
Super Majnoon (East Meets West). Two Thomas albums were released in 2024: the solo piano
The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku) and the electronics-based
This Is Trick Step (577). ==References==