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10 Tracks by Pianist Ross Tompkins
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday I posted on Solo, a 1963 album by trombonist Kai Winding for Verve. Accompanying Winding on the three days of recording was pianist Ross Tompkins. Who was he? Tompkins was probably best known as the pianist on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1971 to 1992, when the show folded. Born in Detroit in 1938, Tompkins studied at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music. He then moved to New York and worked as a sideman with Kai Winding ...
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