0,50 Euro 2004 - Belgian Jazz - René Thomas


0,50 Euro 2004 - Belgian Jazz - René Thomas
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General Description : René Thomas (25 February 1927, Liege, Belgium – 3 January 1975, Spain) is considered one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 1960s, but has remained rather unknown to the general public. After the Second World War, he played with the "Bop Shots", Belgium's first be-bop outfit with Jacques Pelzer and Bobby Jaspar. Between these three men a real musical osmosis arose.

In the early 1950s, Thomas moved to Paris where he connected with the modern jazz scene. In 1954, he recorded his first album under his own name. His reputation as a virtuoso guitarist and inventive musician spread rapidly in the small jazz world.

In 1956, he moved to Canada. He played regularly for the Montreal jazz society and met American musicians, including Sonny Rollins, who becomes impressed enough to invite him for a concert in Philadelphia and for the recording, in 1958, of his Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass album. In the United States, René played with the best jazz musicians of that era: Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Jackie McLean. In 1960, he recorded the album Guitar Groove.

Returning to Europe in 1962, he toured and recorded with Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar, Kenny Clarke, Eddy Louiss, Charles Lolo Bellonzi, Ingfried Hoffman, Stan Getz, Lucky Thompson, Sonny Criss, Jacques Pelzer and Lou Bennett.

He died on 3 January 1975 of a sudden heart attack in Spain, while touring with Lou Bennett.
Face value 0,50 Euro
Catalog code (Michel) BE 3335
Catalog code (Scott) BE 2023
Catalog code Yvert et Tellier BE 3273 Stanley Gibbons BE 3832 Belgium BE 3286 WADP Numbering System - WNS BE056.04 Unificato BE 3279
Stamp colour multicolour
Stamp use Commemorative stamp
Issue date 16/05/2004
Designer Jan Van Riet
Paper type Stamp
Print technique photogravure
Perforation 11 1/2
Height 27.00 mm
Width 40.00 mm
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