Chuck Thompson

Chuck Thompson (* as Charles Edmund Thompson at 4. June 1926 in New York City ) is an American jazz - drummer of bebop .

Chuck Thompson became a professional musician in 1943 and worked for Cee Pee Johnson in California in 1946 . In the same year he played with Charlie Parker ( Yardbird in Lotusland , Spotlite), Howard McGhee , Miles Davis and Joe Albany . Thompson then worked freelance , mostly in the Los Angeles area . After 1947 he played with Benny Carter , Dexter Gordon , Wardell Gray , Charles Mingus , in 1949 in the trio of Erroll Garner . In 1954 he recorded with Barney Kessel and in 1956 with Sonny Criss . He gained greater fame in 1955/56 through his membership in the Hampton Hawes trio . After that, Chuck Thompson worked mostly with local groups in the San Francisco Bay Aera.

Chuck Thompson is not to be confused with the Bebop - pianist Charles Thompson , who also played with Charlie Parker.

Selection discography

• Sonny Criss: The Complete Imperial Sessions (Blue Note, 1956)
• Erroll Garner: 1949, Vol. 2 (Classics)
• Dexter Gordon: The Dial Sessions (Storyville, 1947)
• Wardell Gray's Los Angeles All Stars: Wardell Gray Memorial Vol. 2 (OJC, 1950–52)
• Hampton Hawes: Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes (Contemporary, 1956); The Trio (Contemporary / OJC, 1956)
• Barney Kessel: Plays Standards (OJC, 1954)
• Charles Mingus: West Coast 1945-1949 (Uptown)

literature

• Martin Kunzler : Jazz-Lexikon , Reinbek, Rowohlt, 1988.
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002.