Pete Thomas (saxophonist)

Pete Thomas is a leading British music producer, TV and film composer, recording musician, and saxophonist. He was born in London and is now based in Southampton, England. He is also an expert in Jazz music and theory. [cite web
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title=Intute - Jazz theory and improvisation course] [cite web
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title=IMDB - Pete Thomas (II)] [cite web
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Biography

Pete studied saxophone at Leeds College of Music, obtaining a First class diploma. He has worked as head of jazz and pop performance at University of Southampton, where he also taught saxophone and composition. [cite web
url=http://www.southampton.university-music.co.uk/jazz-pop/thomas.html
title=Southampton University Music]

Pete had one of his first professional gigs with Fats Domino. This led to working with Joe Jackson (musician) on his Jumpin' Jive album and world tours as saxophonist and co-arranger. [cite web
url=http://www.saxophones.co.uk/acatalog/info_1841.html
title=Sax.co.uk Catalog]

Pete was a soloist on the Francis Ford Coppola film

He composes music for film and television; credits include [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103848/soundtrack Blue Ice] featuring Michael Caine, Monkey Business (TV series) for Meridian TV and American Kickboxer II.

He has worked on many other projects for many artists including [cite web
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title=Southampton University Music] [cite web
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title=The Joe Jackson Archive]

* Jimmy Witherspoon - Blues, The Whole Blues And Nothing But The Blues
* Robert Cray
*Dave Stewart - Greetings From The Gutter & [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114436/combined Showgirls] (soloist)
* PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love, September Songs, Reeling
* Elton John - Ice On Fire
* Keziah Jones - [http://www.discogs.com/release/1125883 Blufunk Is A Fact]
*The Proclaimers - Hit the Highway
* R.E.M. (band) - Fables of the Reconstruction
* Cliff Richard
* Richard Thompson -Across A Crowded Room & Hand Of Kindness
* Kim Wilde (with Mel Smith) - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

Discography

Pete devised and presented the Music Makers saxophone tuition DVD, introduced by Jools Holland [cite web
url=http://www.beckmanndirect.com/MusicTuition_MMSaxophone.html
title=Beckmann Direct]

Pete's own album "Mr Lucky" released in November 2006 features Lee Allen (musician) playing tenor saxophone. [cite web
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title=Chris Pearce - Navigation - Discography] [cite web
url=http://www.properdistribution.com/latest-releases/album-details.php?pg=5&id=2403
title=Proper distribution]

For Mr Lucky Track listing: [cite web
url=http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7397169/a/MR.+Lucky.htm
title=CD Universe] see article Mr. Lucky (album)

Other tracks appear on compilation albums:

*Bettie Page - [http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?style=music&pid=2218854&cart=227079382 Private Girl]
* [http://www.kudosrecords.co.uk/index.php?page=detail&product=RKX012 Let's Boogaloo Volume 3]

References

External links

* [http://www.petethomas.co.uk/ Official Website]