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Thomas is a professional saxophonist and electronic music composer living in New York that plays with and has played with many great New York bands and other recording/performing artists including:
THE FUNK MVP's!
MILO Z
The Niagaras
Gavin Degraw
Bobby Bell & the Bell System
Little Melvin Underwood
Jake Stigers & The Velvet Roots
Butterscotch
Wendy Starland
Mike Campbell's Boogaloo Kings
Karlus Trapp & KT Magumbo
James Gedeon
G-Money & the All-stars (G&E Music)
Days of Wild
David Mann & The Mann Made Jam
Yo Mama
The Stingers
Frankie Paris & Cold Sweat
Dan Cazio
The Televisionaries
Soul System Orchestras
Ariel Entertainment
Jason Rosen & Last Tribe
Jerry Dugger
Moe Holmes & The Pioneers
Mzawa Danz
Saron Crenshaw
Joe Degraw
Pal Joey (Joey Longo)
Sly Geralds Band
The CNP Horns
Days Of Wild
Exile Records
He is a member of SESAC and plays the soprano, tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet and the Akai 4000s EWI wind synthesizer.
Thomas is influenced by hip hop beats, drum and bass, break beats, house, funk and Jazz and he creates and arranges the beats on a PC with Sony Acid Pro and on an Akai MPC 2000, then adds live instruments like key, drums, bass percussion & vocals.
Here's the line up on the Allergic to Gravity Album:
Bass: Steve Logan, Brett Bass, Ivan Bodley
Guitar: Oz Noy & Gus Gazetas
Percussion: Rolando Rosado (Congas) & Mal Stein (Darbuka & Rik)
Turntable-isms: Mr. Kahn
Vocals: Satish, Moe Holmes, Thomas Hutchings, C.E. Smith Trumpet: Satish
Trombone: Clark Gayton, Matt McDonald
Keyboards: Dave Ricard (Chris Fischer on Make Some Noise for the Funk solo with The Funk MVPs Live at the Bitter End)
All beats programming, soprano sax, tenor sax & Akai 4000s EWI by Thomas Hutchings
| POSTED BY: momof5pacs | POSTED ON: 18 Jan 2009 07:38 PM | ||
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 RadioIndy is pleased to present Thomas Hutchings with a GrIndie Award for the CD "Allergic to Gravity"
“Allergic to Gravity” is a unique jazz-tronica album from New York City saxophonist/electronic music composer Thomas Hutchings. This album is all about making original, good music. Hutchings’ songs originate with the synthesizer, programmed beats, and various electronica elements, forming the base for all the tracks. Then he dubs live instruments, including percussion, creative guitar, funky bass, sax, flute, clarinet, and trumpet over it to complete the arrangement. Some tracks are jazz-heavy, others are electronica-heavy, and still others breech the trip-hop and funk genres. All of the arrangements are outstanding, with catchy hooks, danceable beats, and the live instruments perfectly in sync with the programmed elements. “Allergic to Gravity” is well-produced, and the louder you play it, the better. “Shizznizzle” has a great arrangement with a quick flute line throughout, a funky bass line, hot beats programming, and an overall consistency throughout. “Everybody Say Ahhhhh” is an electronica-heavy track with extreme danceability and light horns in the background, and features a great trumpet solo against the beats. Overall, “Allergic to Gravity” is an original album that fuses two distinct genres through a great electronic base and excellent jazz accompaniments. Fans of either of these genres should see what jazz-tronica is all about. -Chris & the RadioIndy.com Reviewer Team |
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| POSTED BY: momof5pacs | POSTED ON: 07 Oct 2008 04:01 PM | ||
 “Allergic to Gravity” is a unique jazz-tronica album from New York City saxophonist/electronic music composer Thomas Hutchings. This album is all about making original, good music. Hutchings’ songs originate with the synthesizer, programmed beats, and various electronica elements, forming the base for all the tracks. Then he dubs live instruments, including percussion, creative guitar, funky bass, sax, flute, clarinet, and trumpet over it to complete the arrangement. Some tracks are jazz-heavy, others are electronica-heavy, and still others breech the trip-hop and funk genres. All of the arrangements are outstanding, with catchy hooks, danceable beats, and the live instruments perfectly in sync with the programmed elements. “Allergic to Gravity” is well-produced, and the louder you play it, the better. “Shizznizzle” has a great arrangement with a quick flute line throughout, a funky bass line, hot beats programming, and an overall consistency throughout. “Everybody Say Ahhhhh” is an electronica-heavy track with extreme danceability and light horns in the background, and features a great trumpet solo against the beats. Overall, “Allergic to Gravity” is an original album that fuses two distinct genres through a great electronic base and excellent jazz accompaniments. Fans of either of these genres should see what jazz-tronica is all about. -Chris & the RadioIndy.com Reviewer TeamCheck out Thomas Hutchings's music on RadioIndy.com with link to purchase and links to popular sites |
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