Jazz Articles about Walter Thompson

Walter Thompson: PEXO: A Soundpainting Symphony

by Michael Davis
March 11, 2004

Composer/reed player Walter Thompson is a musician's musician, someone who does consistently interesting work, yet whose name rarely surfaces in the pool of public opinion. Past projects have featured major players from both coasts—Nels and Alex Cline, Vinny Golia, Dave Douglas, Herb Robertson, Thomas Chapin—and if the members of his current aggregation lack such international reputations, they are more than up to the task of presenting Thompson's latest opus/system/ thingy.

Okay, Thompson describes it thusly: