Jazz Articles about Tim Thompson

Tim Thompson: Faces

by Mark Sabbatini
January 2, 2005

For some bizarre reason this album inspires memories of Thailand, where a used paperback novel and a take-out meal for ten cost the same: the value is strongly influenced by the setting.

Nashville guitarist Tim Thompson's Faces is a smooth jazz collection of originals and standards offering substance while still appealing to the Russ Freeman/Lee Ritenour crowd. Compared to most such performers, Thompson dwells in above-average territory.

But an iPod programming accident exposed Faces' relative worth ...