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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Masada
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1975
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Flash
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1980
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