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10 Tracks by Pianist Ross Tompkins

10 Tracks by Pianist Ross Tompkins

Source: 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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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Heart To Heart

Dash Hoffman Records
1997

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L.A. After Dark

Famous Door
1985

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Street of Dreams

Famous Door
1983

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Festival Time

Concord Jazz
1979

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