Omar Thomas Large Ensemble - Griot Songs (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Described as "elegant, beautiful, sophisticated, intense, and crystal clear in emotional intent," the music of Omar Thomas continues to move listeners everywhere it is performed. Born to Guyanese parents in Brooklyn, New York in 1984, Omar moved to Boston in 2006 to pursue a Master of Music in Jazz Composition at the New England Conservatory of Music after studying Music Education at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He is the protégé of lauded composers and educators Ken Schaphorst and Frank Carlberg, and has studied under multiple Grammy-winning composer and bandleader Maria Schneider.
Hailed by Herbie Hancock as showing "great promise as a new voice in the further development of jazz in the future," educator, arranger, and award-winning composer Omar Thomas has created music extensively in the contemporary jazz ensemble idiom. It was while completing his Master of Music Degree that he was appointed the position of Assistant Professor of Harmony at Berklee College of Music at the surprisingly young age of 23. Following his Berklee tenure, he served on faculty of the Music Theory department at The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

TRACKLIST

1. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble - The Sun in September
2. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble - Sail to the Moon
3. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble - Obeah Woman
4. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble - Nothing There
5. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble - Episode d'Azur
6. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble - The Path
7. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble - A Touch of Obsidian, A Flash of Scarlet



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