JOE THOMAS (FLUTE)

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Joseph Samuel Thomas

American jazz/funk flautist and occasional saxophonist, born May 31, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, died July 26, 2017 in Orange, New Jersey. Also known as “The Ebony Godfather”.

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The brief career of this artist, one of four different horn players in jazz named Joe Thomas, can be basically described as symposium on funky flute. He was certainly not the only flautist huffing and puffing over strong backbeats in the '70s and '80s, the era's popular players in this style including Herbie Mann, Jeremy Steig, and Hubert Laws. Thomas' masterwork in this genre might be considered to be "Funky Fever," more than ten minutes of jamming that has been described as "jazzy disco funk boogie," complete with a vocal chorus that chants "I've got this funky, funky fever."

Thomas had a relative amount of success with a series of albums released under his own name, debuting in 1975 and concluding
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JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Joe Thomas And Bill Elliott : Speak Your Piece album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Joe Thomas And Bill Elliott : Speak Your Piece
Soul Jazz 1964
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Comin' Home album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Comin' Home
Soul Jazz 1968
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Is The Ebony Godfather album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Is The Ebony Godfather
Funk Jazz 1971
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Joy Of Cookin' album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Joy Of Cookin'
Soul Jazz 1972
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) The Ebony Godfather : Moog Fluting album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Ebony Godfather : Moog Fluting
Funk Jazz 1974
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Masada album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Masada
RnB 1975
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Feelin's From Within album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Feelin's From Within
RnB 1976
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Here I Come album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Here I Come
RnB 1977
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Get In The Wind album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Get In The Wind
RnB 1978
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Make Your Move album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Make Your Move
RnB 1979
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Sweet Cocoa album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sweet Cocoa
RnB 1980
JOE THOMAS (FLUTE) Flash album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Flash
RnB 1980

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