“Mesmerising” BBC Music Magazine

“A boundary-blurring composer and improviser” Gramophone Magazine

“A revelation” Apple Music

“This is a fascinating and musicologically daring concept..there is a line of purity from first to last, delivered with a markedly multivalent touch. Remarkable.” International Piano Magazine *****

“Beautifully ruminative…the serious care and thought characterising Thomas’ acoustic choices happily extend into his pianism” Gramophone Magazine

“A perfect fit for ECM” Jazzwise

“Thomas has consolidated his credentials as an illuminating if idiosyncratic Bachian” BBC Music Magazine

“Splendidly creative” The Wire Magazine

“Fred Thomas, whose first ECM effort was a collection of Bach transcriptions, applies those sensibilities in his delicate work on piano and vielle…Thomas is on drums on “Dezile A Mi Amor,” musical and sensitive as on his other two instruments” Downbeat Magazine

“Thomas is challenging the status quo of the classical music genre” Vice

“Extreme sensitivity to colour and nuance….Fred Thomas is brilliant” BBC Music Magazine

“A great pianist’ Written in Music

“A master of many instruments” London JazzNews

“Original interpretations that fit the ECM imprimatur like a glove” UK Jazz News

“An inexhaustible range of touch and colour” Birmingham Post

“Fred Thomas delivers an elegiac ode” Presto Music

“Fred Thomas is no ordinary personality” RTBF.be

“In a word: sublime” SilenceAndSound

“An intuitive maestro” Benoît Delbecq

“Fred Thomas’ gorgeous accompaniment…should be a readymade fave” The Wire Magazine

“A free spirit” Jazz Podium

“Superb” TheJazzMan

“Fred Thomas is a highly original talent” Chris Parker

“Thomas’s solo flights are memorable” Textura

“The audience had already been eased into receptivity for subtle nuances by the delicate piano improvising of Fred Thomas” John Fordham, The Guardian

“Distinctive arrangements and settings by bassist/percussionist/keyboard man Fred Thomas …..encourages repeated listens to reveal all the detail, and the beguiling range and variety of the songs and arrangements reward this” fRoots Magazine

“Meticulously arranged by Fred Thomas, some kind of all-hearing God in heaven” Wallis Bird

“An astonishingly versatile composer, arranger and producer” London JazzNews

“The versatility of Fred Thomas is important in this respect (what other jazz pianist plays the vielle – a medieval bowed string instrument – and the drums?), as is his background in both classical, jazz and world music settings” UK Jazz News

“High class” The Telegraph

“Fred Thomas was mostly playing drums (he has appeared at Ronnie’s before as both pianist and bassist as well), and then switched to piano where his exquisite touch and balancing of voicings (as he shows on his recent Bach album for Odradek) were to the fore on an exquisitely hushed Leaving of Limerick” London Jazz News

“So, so right. Thomas gives the closing Gigue an irresistible swing and finds rare depth and expression in the Allemande. There’s similar magic in Suite No. 3, Bach’s slow Sarabande heart stopping, the double and triple stopping immaculate….played with elegance and warmth. Absolutely enchanting” The Arts Desk

“F-IRE Collective stalwart Fred Thomas is equally subtle and responsive in support” Sussex Jazz Magazine

“Impressive and attractive” Jazz Weekly

“Compelling” Bebop Spoken Here

“It is drummer Fred Thomas who emerges as the leading compositional voice here. Thomas’ principal study at the Royal Academy of Music was in piano and he is an experienced performer on that instrument in a variety of contexts. This might go some way in explaining not just his dominance in the writing, but also the colouristic, textural approach he adopts on the drum kit” OMH Music

“This is someone with a strong instinct to make new things happen in a brilliantly individual way” London JazzNews

“Superb technique” Steve Berryman  (I Care if You Listen)

“A first-class double-bass/pianist” Charlie Gillett’s Sound of the World

“Fred Thomas plays with a strutting, brooding tension” Chris Morley, Birmingham Post

“A highly cultured double-bassist/pianist” El Correo Digital

“Fred Thomas established his soft-touch voice and great sense of rhythm both of which would run diffidently (and impressively) throughout the gig” B24/7

“Fred Thomas is known for his imaginative breadth and his ability to take all styles of music into new dimensions” The Vortex Jazz Club

“Keenly sensitive accompaniments from Fred Thomas on piano and drums” The Scotsman