Sir Charles Thompson: Robbin's Lest - Live At The Jazz Showcase on CD

Sir Charles Thompson (1918-2016)

Robbin's Lest - Live At The Jazz Showcase

CD (Compact Disc)

Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.

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Label:: Delmark
Year of recording ca.:: 2000
Item number:: 3383940
UPC/EAN:: 0038153052621
Release date:: 14.11.2000

+Eric Schneider,Art Hoyle,Charles Braugham,
Ed De Haas

Sir Charles Thompson's August engagement at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago was an unexpected gift. The 82-year-old pianist, a mainstay on New York's dynamic 52nd Street scene in the '40s and '50s, hadn't appeared in Chicago since 1941 as a member of Lionel Hampton's first band. Lloyd Sachs wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times "he showed off a nimble, neatly regimented, highly personal way of phrasing that honored the great `ticklers' of the ivories while remaining relevant to today." Thompson's trio is joined by Eric Schneider on tenor sax and Art Hoyle on trumpet for a few tracks on this live CD. Includes a wonderful rendition of Thompson's graceful composition "Robbins' Nest", still one of the most played tunes of that era.