Bert Thompson
Bert Thompson (born October 17, 1947 in Niagara Falls (New York) ) is an American jazz musician ( double bass ) and translator .
Live and act
Thompson, whose mother was a church musician, received piano lessons from his mother, then violin lessons at school. Between the ages of 14 and 16 he learned the double bass and gained his first experience in school orchestras and combos in clubs and youth centers. After college he did his military service in Army Band 298 in what was then West Berlin. Even as a soldier, Thompson accompanied well-known jazz musicians such as Johnny Griffin , Slide Hampton , Dizzy Gillespie , Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Lionel Hampton . Then he belonged to the band El Babaku led by Billy Brooks , but also toured with Lou Blackburn's Mombasa and with Errol Dixon ( In the Groove ). He also accompanied the singer Tanja Berg in the group Pecks is Food . He also continued his education in Rainer Zepperitz's master class at the Berlin University of the Arts .
In 1978 he was hired by Erich Kleinschuster to play in the ORF Big Band in Vienna for a year . Then he worked in the WDR television series Let's Swing! by David Kamien and Dietrich Schulz-Köhn as musicians and musical consultants. In the 1980s he toured with Charles Tolliver and Abdullah Ibrahim through Europe, but also to Africa and the Orient. He also belonged to the groups of Lajos Dudas and Monika Linges , later to that of John C. Marshall and to the Gentlemen of Swing from Joe Wulf, with whom he also recorded. He plays rhythm and blues with the Lanko group .
Since Thompson completed his master's degree in Arabic at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen in 1991 , he has also worked as a translator. Among other things, he translated the Brubeck and Armstrong biographies of Ilse Storb into English.
Discographic notes
- Billy Brooks El Babaku: Live at the Jazz Galerie ( MPS 1971)
- Dusko Goykovich East Of Montenegro (Cosmic Sounds 1975, with Ferdinand Povel , Vince Benedetti , Billy Brooks, ed. 2003)
- Lajos Dudas Monte Carlo (Rayna 1981, with Attila Zoller , Kurt Billker )
- Monika Linges Songing (Nabel 1984)
- John Thomas Serious Business (Nabel 1986)
- John C. Marshall / Gregory Gaynair Black Jack (Shuttle Music 1991)
- Joe Wulf / Bob Barnard Shades of Duke (JW)
Web links
- biography
- Bert Thompson at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short bio (Gentlemen of Swing)
- ^ Floating on the sound carpet WAZ, May 28, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thompson, Bert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician (double bass) and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niagara Falls (New York) |