This name belongs to several artists: Joe Thomas, June 19 - August 1986, jazz tenor saxophonist from Kansas City, Missouri. Joe Thomas, June 16th, 1933, jazz, funk and disco composer, arranger, saxophone player and fluitist Joe Thomas, active from the '70s to the early '80s, well known for instrumentals as "Masada", "Funky Fever", "Polarizer" and "A Place In Space", and the disco hit "Plato's Retreat" - a tribute to a New York swingers club. Joe Lewis Thomas, July 5, 1973 in Columbus, Georgia.