A taster record instore show ahead of our longer concert at Hot Air in Haarlem in the evening.
Renowned as a passionate and energetic performer, the career of Jon Thorne has spanned a broad range of the musical spectrum and has taken him on tour in 55 countries.
As double bassist in the acclaimed ground breaking electronica band Lamb, he has helped to pioneer the use of live double bass playing in electronic music and has recorded on all seven of their albums, toured over fifty countries in five continents and played at most of the worlds leading festivals including Coachella, Roskilde, Wechter, Glastonbury and NYC Central Park Summerstage.
He has also recorded, performed with and appeared on albums alongside artists as diverse as Jon Hopkins, Iron And Wine, Scott Matthews, Liam Bailey, Kathryn Williams, Robert Miles, Trilok Gurtu, Robert Fripp, Donovon, James Yorkston, King Creosote, Sam Lee, Glen Hansard, Amos Lee, Jesca Hoop, Martha Tilston, Leo Abrahams, Vashti Bunyan, Green Gartside, Laura Mvula, Charlotte Church, ESKA and KT Tunstall.
As well as playing double bass, he also sings and plays guitar in Yorkston/Thorne/Khan.
He has performed with Iain Ballamy, Pete King, Guy Barker, Alan Barnes, Dave O’Higgins and Gilad Atzmon and has played at the many of the worlds leading Jazz Festivals, including Montreaux, North Sea, London and Brecon. He has appeared at The Jazz Café, 606 Club and Pizza Express Soho London.
He leads the ensemble Oedipus Mingus, an octet performing original arrangements of the music of Charles Mingus.
He has released three solo albums, including ‘Watching the Well’, which he composed as a showcase for his mentor, legendary British bassist Danny Thompson.
He has performed with the ‘Way To Blue’ Nick Drake Tribute project at Birmingham Symphony Hall and with the ‘Both Sides Now’ Joni Mitchell Tribute project with the BBC Orchestra of Wales at The Wales Millenium Centre in Cardiff.
Now a resident of the Isle Of Wight, Jon regularly performs on the local scene and appears with two community choirs led by Hannah Breer.
He is associate lecturer and Head Of Bass Studies at Platform One, the degree college on the island
His playing featuring extensively on the new NBC/Universal American Sci-Fi TV Series “Hunters.”
Recorded film soundtrack work includes : No Way Up - 2024 The Legend Of Barney Thompson - 2015 The Look Of Love - 2013
Selected Discography
Into The Luminous - Makushin 2023 Pull Me Under - Mother Sky 203 JC Grimshaw’s Panama Picnic Orchestra 2023 Order Of Romance - Jesca Hoop 2022 Surrounded - Justin Sullivan 2021 The Third Law Of Motion - The Strangest Of Times 2020 Navarasa - Yorkston/Thorne/Khan 2020 The Secret Of Letting Go - Lamb 2019 Singularity - Jon Hopkins 2018 Homestead - Jon Thorne 2017 Greetings From Hamilton, Canada - King Creosote 2017 Let Your Weirdness Carry You Home - Malojian 2017 Headlong - John Smith 2017 Neuk Wight Delhi All Stars - Yorkston/Thorne/Khan 2017 Resonator - Kathryn Williams/Anthony Kerr 2016 Home Part 2 - Scott Matthews 2016 Before The Sun - Hannah Sanders/Ben Savage 2016 Everything Sacred - Yorkston/Thorne/Khan 2016 Hypoxia - Kathryn Williams 2015 Definitely Now - Liam Bailey 2015 Salvor - False Lights - 2015 Charms Against Sorrow - 2015 Backspace_Unwind - Lamb 2014 The Cellardyke Recording & Wassailing Society - James Yorkston 2014 Crown Electric - Kathryn Williams 2013 I Was A Cat From A Book - James Yorkston 2012 Eavesdropping - John Smith CD 2011 Five - Lamb CD 2011 Fear of Fours - Lamb CD 1998 Lamb - Lamb CD 1996 Between Darkness and Wonder - Lamb CD 2003 Best Kept Secrets - Lamb 2004 CD and DVD Lamb - Live at The Paradiso - DVD 2011 Live at Koko - Lamb CD 2011 Watching The Well - Jon Thorne CD 2010 Manchester Road - Jon Thorne’s Oedipus Complex CD 2006 Thirteen - Robert Miles CD 2011 Snowglobe - Jesca Hoop CD 2011 Oh My Days - The Memory Band CD 2011 Map or Direction - John Smith CD 2010 Love Amongst Ruin - Love Amongst Ruin CD 2010 Lucy and the Wolves - Martha Tilston - CD 2010 One Good Thing - Lou Rhodes - CD 2010 Ninja Tuna – Mr Scruff 2008 Migrating Bird - The songs of Lal Waterson (with James Yorkston ) 2007 Of Milkmaids and Architects - Martha Tilston CD 2006 Miles/Gurtu - Robert Miles/Trilok Gurtu LP 2004
www.jonthorne.co.uk contact; jonthorne3@me.com