With Lucid, his fifth album as a leader before his 30th birthday, composer/pianist Micah Thomas continues to redefine, and self-define, the ways a prodigy can express and sponsor brilliance. Able to play what he has heard since he was two years old, Thomas was gigging with national-caliber musicians in high school while steadily absorbing a swath of music that ranges from Thelonious Monk to Gustav Mahler to Willie “The Lion” Smith. Probably still best known for his long, ongoing tenure with the Immanuel Wilkins Quartet — where his adventurous solos are frequently a highlight of the group’s live performances — Thomas’s own projects favor conceptual clarity and innovation over dazzling technique.
For Lucid, the abiding concept is to generate…

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