Elijah J. Thomas

Elijah J. Thomas is a Philadelphia-born, Harlem-based flutist, composer, and educator who plays flute, alto flute, and piccolo across the New York jazz and new-music scenes. He is a longtime member of the Kelly Green Quartet, lending an open, translucent voice to the pianist and vocalist's original music alongside bassist Luca Soul Rosenfeld and drummer Evan Hyde. Thomas earned a B.M. in Jazz Arranging and Composition and an M.M. in Music Education from Temple University's Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance, where he studied woodwind performance with Dick Oatts, Tim Warfield Jr., and Cynthia Folio. Under the banner of what he calls "enuff music," he composes work rooted in community, spirituality, and Black healing, with solo releases including enuff music, vol. i and Our Search. He serves as Jazz Program Manager at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and as musical director of the nonprofit Honk NYC!.