Pat Thomas, Architecture, Abstraction (Preview)

Pat Thomas, JazzFest Berlin, November 2, 2025 © Berliner Festspiele, Camille Blake (The second of three subscriber posts on Substack on this year’s Jazz Fest Berlin. The first two are longer essays on particular sets by Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer and by Pat Thomas, the third a more general overview of the festival.) Thomas manifests absolute presence on stage: gregarious off it, on stage he…