“Beautiful – masterfully played” – Iggy Pop “A brilliant jazz trumpeter” – Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music “Beyond mind blowing!” - Amy Lame, BBC 6 Music CD TRACKLIST: “Leron Thomas isn’t making it easy on himself. His self-pro- duced records are hard to sum up - and that’s the point” - NY TIMES Conference Room • In The City (Feat. Iggy Pop) ‘More Elevator Music’ is twelve tracks of jazz-edged hip-hop and reassuring curiosity People Are Watching • iFeel • Fox Wit reaching from the fuzziest depths of its backpack, with Iggy Pop, Malik Crumpler, Audacious Pigeons • Veins • iDo Florian Pellissier, Kenny Ruby, Tibo Brandalise and Greg F providing assists. Blind • Endicott • Corporate • Field Trip Jazz trumpeter, composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, provocateur and, “masterful genre-bender”, Leron Thomas, a New York transplant from Houston, was once upon a time in his own words “just your run of the mill jazz musician realizing that I didn’t vibrate well on the NYC jazz scene”. LP TRACKLIST: His credentials that have put him in his own lane, make a mockery of such self-depreca- tion. Charles Tolliver - Thomas’ one-time trumpet teacher in college – is but one scene A1. Conference Room great he has performed with. Broadly speaking he can name Bilal, 88 Keys, Dennis A2. In The City (Feat. Iggy Pop) Ferrer, Lauryn Hill (as part of her touring band) and Zara McFarlane as further conspira- A3. People Are Watching tors of note. His performance critiqued by the NY Times as “intelligent, casual, a little nuts and completely entertaining”, Thomas has featured on Gilles Peterson’s vanguard ‘Brownswood Bubblers’ compilation series, and his 2015 release ‘Cliquish’ was B1. iFeel • B2. Fox Wit shortlisted by Peterson at the Worldwide awards in the best album category, described B3. Audacious Pigeons as a “brilliant LP that really breaks the mould”. C1. Veins • C2. iDo • C3. Blind Prolifically off the radar and realigning his style inspired by the likes of Frank Zappa, David Bowie, George Clinton, James Brown, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Herbie Nichols and Frankie Beverly, Thomas’ most recent position at the wheel of reinvention D1. Endicott • D2. Corporate • D3. Field Trip was as a vital cog behind Iggy Pop’s ‘Free’ album of 2019 (“a liberating collection that unshackles the star from his past” - NME). ARTIST: LERON THOMAS TITLE: MORE ELEVATOR MUSIC FORMAT: CD/LP LABEL: LEWIS RECORDINGS CD LP CATALOG: LEWIS1065-CD/LP STREET: 01/22/21.