René Thomas 1965

spatzo

Here's a small rare clip with Lou Bennett organ, René Thomas guitar and Kenny Clarke, Blue Note in Paris, date 1965




Enjoy!

CalebFSU

Cool man!

plectroman

Very cool! Rene played in the jazz bars that existed on Green St in Albany NY in the fifties... I was too young to go, but in the seventies I was friendly with tenor man JR Monterose who played and lived with Rene. One of the things JR said Rene would do was to put a cloth on the neck so the strings were muted and then concentrated on picking hand only....

bertone

emicad

thanks, nice vids!

bertone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVBp2NL ... re=channel

..check the user's other vids for 3 more tunes from this Belgian TV broadcast from 1962.

spatzo

Excellent !

aanssell25

René Thomas (25 February 1927, Liege, Belgium - 3 January 1975 in Spain) is considered one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 1960s, but has remained rather unknown to the general public. After the Second World War, he played with the "Bop Shots", Belgium's first be-bop outfit with Jacques Pelzer and Bobby Jaspar. Between these three men a real musical osmosis arose.
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bertone

Hi any Thomas fans,

To update this thread, there is more material on Youtube. and also a René Thomas group on Facebook.

A member there recently posted a link to a French radio archive from 1955, with the amazing chance to hear René and Stephane Grappelli together, in a very extended session by an instrumentally strange group, including vibes (Fats Sadi), harpsichord, piano, an almost-Sun Ra-sounding electric keyboard, and what sounds like a pedal-steel guitar, along with drop-ins by Bobby Jaspar and others.

This is probably the best segment, IMO:

http://www.ina.fr/audio/PHD88026785/pia ... 55.fr.html

Kicks off with René and Stephane soloing on "S'Wonderful".

The other four segments are findable by searching for "rené thomas" in the search box on the site. Some are a bit frustrating, like the Thomas/Grappelli feature on "Honeysuckle Rose" which has about 12 choruses by Grappelli, then the melody (no Thomas solo), but hey how amazing to hear this material in the first place!

Enjoy, and any interested fans on Facebook, join up!

best, Jon in NJ