Pete Thomas

Pete Thomas

Pillar of Band on the Wall

Pete Thomas is a leading British music producer, TV and film composer and saxophonist.. He was born in London, and studied at the Leeds College of Music, where he obtained a First Class diploma. He went on to become senior tutor in jazz and popular music at the University of Southampton, where he also taught saxophone and composition.

One of his first professional gigs was with the American R&B and rock-and-roll pianist Fats Domino. This led him to work with singer-songwriter Joe Jackson on his Jumpin' Jive album and world tours as saxophonist and co-arranger, and also on the soundtrack to Francis Ford Coppola movie 'Tucker'.

When he's not touring or working as a composer, he's much in demand as a multi-horn session player and arranger, working with the following producers and artists:

Adamski

Flood

Rod Argent

Pete Wingfield

Gus Dudgeon

Robin Millar

Stuart Colman

Marshall Jefferson

PJ Harvey

REM

Cliff Richard

Elton John

Richard Thompson

Robert Cray

Keziah Jones

Kim Wilde

As well as his Rock and Pop music credits Pete is well respected as a jazz musician. One time member of award winning fusion band Swift he has also featured with the Thad Jones Orchestra, Loose Tubes, Slim Gaillard, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jon Hendricks and Laverne Baker.

Pete Thomas is a consummate musician and an uninhibited performer, totally at ease in any musical idiom. He deals equally effortlessly with conducting an orchestra or programming for a modern pop session. He’s totally at one with the synthesizers, samplers, computers and midi controllers demanded by and responsible for today’s commercial music as well as breaking new ground by pioneering the saxophone-to-MIDI interface.

His continued support to Band on the Wall has been outstanding, and we are extremely grateful.