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Don (Donald Winston) Thompson. Pianist, bassist, vibraphonist, drummer, composer, arranger, recording engineer, b Powell River, north of Vancouver, 18 Jan 1940. After childhood piano lessons he took up the string bass and the vibraphone in his teens. He is essentially self-taught on all instruments. In Vancouver 1960-5 he was sideman to Chris Gage (playing bass or vibraphone) and Dave Robbins (bass) and accompanied the visiting US jazzmen Barney Kessel, John Handy, and others in local nightclubs. With the drummer Terry Clarke he joined Handy's quintet in the USA in 1965, touring widely and making two LPs, one of which, Live at Monterey, was among the most popular jazz recordings of the 1960s. Thompson returned to Vancouver in 1967 (after working briefly in Montreal with Lee Gagnon that year) and then moved to Toronto in 1969
Soft Winds And Roses
By Diana Panton
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Your Song; They Long to be Close to You; Secret Heart; Sweet Happy Life; A
Wish (Valentine); How Deep is Your Love; Pussywillows, Cat-Tails; Here, There,
and Everywhere; You and I; And I Love You So; Until It's Time for You to Go; Hey,
That's No Way to Say Goodbyew; Snow; Both Side Now.
Diana Panton: Soft Winds And Roses
by Pierre Giroux
Diana Panton has long been an artist of quiet yet undeniable depth, uniquely transforming melodies into deeply personal narratives. On Soft Winds and Roses, she focuses on modern classics from the 1960s onward, drawing from the songbooks of Elton John, Burt Bacharach, Gordon Lightfoot, Lennon and McCartney, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, among many others. In ...
The Dave Robbins Big Band: Happy Faces
by Jack Bowers
Even though its renowned leader and trombonist passed away in 2005, and the Dave Robbins Big Band's Happy Faces was recorded some forty years before that, the music on this remarkable album remains as fresh and provocative as today's front-page news. The Indiana-born Robbins, a legend among big-band artists and enthusiasts in Vancouver, British Columbia, and ...
Soft Winds and Roses
By Diana Panton
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Your Song (Elton John/Bernie Taupin);
(They Long to Be) Close to You (Burt Bacharach/Hal David);
Secret Heart (Ronald Eldon Sexsmith);
Sweet Happy Life (Luiz Bonfa/Norman Gimbel/Antonio Maria);
A Wish (Valentine) (Fred Hersch/Norma Winstone);
How Deep Is Your Love (Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb);
Pussywillows, Cat-Tails (Gordon Lightfoot);
Here, There and Everywhere (John Lennon/Paul McCartney);
You and I (Norman Gimbel/Vinicius de Moraes/Carlos Lyra);
And I Love You So (Don McLean);
Until It's Time for You to Go (Buffy Sainte-Marie);
Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen);
Snow (Randy Newman);
Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell).
Julieta Eugenio, Lynne Arriale and Teddy Edwards
by Jerome Wilson
This show features current releases by musicians such as Julieta Eugenio, Lynne Arriale, and Owen Broder as well as older sounds from Teddy Edwards, Lisa Sokolov, and Carlos Santana. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 ...
Lorne Lofsky: Steward of the Canadian Guitar Tradition
by John Chacona
Guitarist Lorne Lofsky rocketed to fame when It Could Happen To You (Pablo Records, 1981), his debut release as a leader, was produced by fellow Canadian Oscar Peterson. Lofsky has since toured and recorded with a wide range of musicians from all around the world, including Peterson, but his hometown of Toronto has been his base ...
Bells... Now and Then
By Don Thompson
Label: Modica Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Circles; Caribe; September; Stratford Stomp; Bells; Suite: I. Kyoto; II. MoodDance; III. Red
Dragonfly; IV. Nexus; V. Chant; Days Gone By.
One More For The Road
By Guido Basso
Label: Cornerstone Records Inc.
Released: 2023
Track listing: Two for the Road; Gentle Rain; Blue Monk; My Ideal; You're Nearer; Bye Bye Blues; The Good
Life; East of the Sun; Second Chance; Last Night When We Were Young; Ill Wind; Ballad of the
Sad Young Men.
Don Thompson & Rob Piltch: Bells... Now and Then
by Pierre Giroux
Multi-instrumentalist Don Thompson and guitarist Rob Piltch are two Canadian musicians who, in 1981 and 1982, recorded an album entitled Bells for the Umbrella label. The material has been remastered and reissued as Bells...Now and Then, bookended by two new recordings of compositions by Thompson. Don Thompson has been a highly-regarded part ...
