Gordon Thomas

Who is Gordon Thomas?

Gordon Thomas is a singer/songwriter/jazz trombonist from New York City who recorded a series of self-financed albums of his own optimistically idiosyncratic music, which he often gave away for free.

After laboring in obscurity for decades, Thomas achieved minor cult-figure status when his recordings were discovered and circulated by far-flung collectors of outsider music - music performed by social outsiders who have little or no connection to the mainstream music business. In 2005, at the age of 89, Thomas was the subject of a documentary film, "Everything's Coming My Way: The Life and Music of Gordon Thomas," by Montreal filmmakers Stacey DeWolfe and Malcolm Fraser.