More By Artist: Leon Thomas
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Leon Thomas
Blues And The Soulful Truth (LP) [ LP - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Digitally remastered edition of this 1972 release. His fifth album, Blues And the Soulful Truth is often considered to be Thomas' classic album. Aimed at a crossover market, producer Bob Thiele allied the singer with James Brown's bandleader... |
Leon Thomas
Full Circle (Gatefold LP) [ Flying Dutchman / Ace Records LP / LP - released 30/Jun/2023 ] Leon Thomas was the definitive jazz vocalist of the 1970s and his albums for Flying Dutchman are all classics. Although he had started his career in Count Basie's band in the early 60s, by the latter part of the decade he had become an essential... |
Leon Thomas
Spirits Known and Unknown (Double Gatefold LP) [ Flying Dutchman Records / LP - released 2/Sep/2022 ] Leon Thomas' debut solo recording after his tenure with Pharoah Sanders is among his finest moments on vinyl, proving his versatility and accessibility to an audience who, for too long already, had associated him too closely with the avant-garde... |
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors / Sebastian: Ballet Suite Chet Allen / Rosemary Kuhlmann / Andrew McKinley / David Aiken / Leon Lishner / Orchestra and Chorus / Thomas Schippers [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "Best of all here is the wonderful conducting of Thomas Schippers, who finds more energy, more poetry and more pathos in Amahl than any other conductor I've heard: in Schippers's hands it is both moving and adorable, and this Naxos transfer by Mark... |
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: The Saint of Bleecker Street / The Unicorn, the Gorgon and the Manticore Gabrielle Ruggiero / David Poleri / Gloria Lane / Maria Di Gerlando / Leon Lishner / Orchestra and Chorus / Thomas Schippers [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] Hailed as 'the best new opera since Gershwin's Porgy and Bess', Gian Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Bleecker Street won the Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Drama Critics Circle award for Best Musical. Its underlying themes of immigrant life... |
Leon Thomas
The Creator Has A Master Plan (Peace) (Edit) / The Creator Has A Master Plan (Peace) (7") [ BGP / Ace Records / 7in - released 27/Oct/2023 ] A wonderful opportunity to own two monuments of vocal jazz on one 7-inch single. 'The Creator Has A Master Plan' was first recorded by Pharoah Sanders - with Thomas on vocals - on his album 'Karma' in 1969 and became an underground hit and spiritual... |
Leon Thomas
Full Circle [ CD - released 13/Nov/2015 ] Jazz vocalist Leon Thomas' final album for Flying Dutchman was recorded when he was a member of Santana. The singer created a modern blend of blues, jazz and soul. A firm favourite of current jazz star Gregory Porter, Thomas is sometimes... |
Leon Thomas
It's My Life I'm Fighting For / Shape Your Mind To Die (7") [ BGP / Ace Records / 7in - released 28/Jun/2024 ] These two Leon Thomas cuts have become increasingly sought after by DJs in recent years and so we are delighted to pair both full-length versions on this 33rpm 7". For his 1973 Flying Dutchman LP "Full Circle" Thomas teamed up with top New York... |
