Results for "Don Thompson"

Article: Album Review

Guido Basso: One More For The Road

by Pierre Giroux
September 1, 2023

Guido Basso, known for his mastery of the flugelhorn and trumpet, died in February of 2023. From his earliest days in Montreal playing with the Maury Kaye band, to working in the US with top performers such Vic Damone and Pearl Bailey, Basso gained a reputation as a consummate musician who was capable of working in ...

Article: Year in Review

2022: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
December 29, 2022

Current events impacted the jazz world in significant ways throughout 2022. In its third year, the coronavirus pandemic continued to lurk in some settings, while others recovered in robust fashion. Russia's war on Ukraine was felt by musicians and triggered an outpouring of support for its victims. Initiatives to ensure greater equity in jazz advanced. The ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Brian Landrus, George Russell and Others

by Jerome Wilson
November 16, 2022

This show features different styles of jazz music, such as sleek large ensemble work from Brian Landrus and George Russell and trios led by Charles Lloyd, Jaki Byard and Frank Kimbrough. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air ...

Article: Interview

Dan McCarthy: A Place Where We Once Lived

by Dan Bilawsky
May 20, 2021

By February of 2019, Dan McCarthy had reached the end of his time in New York. “The movers had come and packed everything up, and my wife and son were already in Toronto at my parents' house. I was at our apartment in Crown Heights and I only had a few things, including my vibes," he ...

Article: Album Review

Paul Desmond: The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings

by C. Andrew Hovan
January 4, 2021

Even if he had never played another note following the break-up of the Dave Brubeck group in 1967, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond would have entered the history books as one of music's most brilliant improvisers. During his 17 years with Brubeck, Desmond proved himself to be an indispensable part of that quartet with a wistful and ...

Album

The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings

By Paul Desmond

Label: Mosaic Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Disc One: Too Marvelous For Words; Line For Lyons; It Could Happen To You;; Just Squeeze Me;;I Wish I Knew; I Should Care. Disc Two: Just Squeeze Me; Meditation; Tangerine; Darn That Dream; Nuages; Like Someone In Love; Things Ain’t What They Used To Be.

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Disc Three: Line For Lyons; Wendy; Too Marvelous For Words; When Sunny Gets Blue; Audrey; Darn That Dream; Take Five.

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Disc Four: Tangerine; Wave; It Could Happen To You; Emily; Line For Lyons; When Sunny Getz Blue; Things Ain’t What They Used To Be.

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Disc Five: I’ve Got You Under My Skin; Just Squeeze Me; All The Things You Are; Autumn Leaves; Wave; Nuages; East Of The Sun; [note: CD and set booklets mistakenly list “I’ve Got You Under My Skin as track 5].

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Disc Six: Let’s Get Away From It All; Line For Lyons; Just Squeeze Me; My Funny Valentine; Mean To Me; Wendy; Things Ain’t What They Used To Be.

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Disc Seven: Wendy; Wave; Things Ain’t What They Used To Be; Nancy; Manha De Carnaval; Here’s That Rainy Day; My Funny Valentine; Take Five.

Musician

Don Thompson

Born: January 18, 1940

Don (Donald Winston) Thompson. Pianist, bassist,vibraphonist, drummer, composer, arranger, recordingengineer, b Powell River, north of Vancouver, 18 Jan 1940.After childhood piano lessons he took up the string bassand the vibraphone in his teens. He is essentially self-taughton all instruments. In Vancouver 1960-5 he was sideman toChris Gage (playing bass or vibraphone) and Dave Robbins(bass) and accompanied the visiting US jazzmen BarneyKessel, John Handy, and others in local nightclubs. With thedrummer Terry Clarke he joined Handy's quintet in the USAin 1965, touring widely and making two LPs, one of which,Live at Monterey, was among the most popular jazzrecordings of the 1960s.

Article: Album Review

John Abercrombie and Don Thompson: Yesterdays

by Don Phipps
January 21, 2020

The late John Abercrombie's outstanding and extensive recorded legacy includes two duet albums with fellow guitarist Ralph Towner, Sargasso Sea (ECM 2008) and Five Years Later (ECM, 2014), four Gateway trio albums (with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Jack DeJohnette), and three Baseline Trio albums (with bassist Hein Van de Geyn and drummer Joe LaBarbera).

Article: Album Review

Al Muirhead: Northern Adventures

by Jack Bowers
February 28, 2017

When you've been a musician as long as Al Muirhead has, you not only earn many friends in the business, you also recognize who among them can play. For Northern Adventures, Muirhead's second album as leader of his own group, the eighty-one-year-old Canadian trumpeter assembled a who's who of the finest musicians his country has to ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Latin Jazz Roundup: Mike Freeman ZonaVibe, Terceto Kali, Will Jarvis, Livio Almeida, & Sergio Pereira

by Mark Sullivan
August 9, 2016

A wide variety of recent Latin jazz releases. Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and flamenco influences are all represented. Mike Freeman ZonaVibe Blue Tjade VOF Recordings 2015 Vibraphonist Mike Freeman leads his ZonaVibe group through an exciting program of Latin jazz originals on his sixth album as leader. The title tune ...