Album Notes

"17 Solo Piano Improvisations"


17 Solo Piano Improvisations is a
suite of loosely related,variously styled
improvised pieces orbiting around certain
features of the music of Franz Liszt. They
document the idea of a direct pathway from
the Beethoven-influenced-Liszt on to Debussy,
Bartok,Schoenburg, Ligeti, Stockhausen, and
certain features of mid-20th century jazz. My
abiding affection for Liszt's personality
and work began with my early reading of his
fanastic life story which I was intoxicated
as I was with his music (especially those
remarkable (Ruth Slencszynaska's Decca
recordings from the 1950's, all of which
should be reissued)! His legendary life led
me to an idealized-heroic lifestyle of my
own wherein I too would dedicate myself to
the pursuit of the true, the noble, the new,
and the beautiful in music.

Ron Thomas

Recorded by John Vanore at Widener University,
Chester, PA in 1991

Mastered by Paul G. Kohler

Produced by Richard Burton

Vectordisc 004

Ron Thomas can be heard on the following
Vectordisc CDs as a leader (Scenes from a
Voyage to Arcturus, The House of Counted Days,
Wings of the Morning, Elysium and Cycles).
Also, Ron appears as a sideman on The Mike
Falcone Quartet's "Playing Live", Richard
Burton's "Simple Major/Simple Minor"and
Kristin Garson's "Music Under the Influence".
Ron has two other CDs as a leader (Music
in Three Parts, Blues for Zarathustra and
Doloroso) on Art of Life Records). He also
appears on the 1972 Muse recordings "Live"
by Pat Martino and "One, Two, Free" by Eric
Kloss.


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