Don Thompson (saxophonist)
Don "DT" Thompson (actually William Thompson , * 19th September 1932 in Drumheller , Alberta ; † 21st March 2004 in Vancouver ) was a Canadian jazz - saxophonist , composer and arranger .
Thompson played in dance bands in Sylvan Lake as a teenager. He and his brother Lloyd performed in the Jammin 'the Blues concert series in Edmonton while they were in high school . In the early 1950s, the two brothers first moved to Montreal and then to Toronto . Don Thompson accompanied the singer Anne Marie Moss ; In 1961 he took part in the recording of the singer Tommy Ambrose . In 1963, Thompson played the single ( Early Autumn / If I Had My Way ) under his own name for the Dash label, in which Rob McConnell participated. In the same year he worked with his quintet in the film Toronto Jazz . In 1965/66 he toured the United States with the Lionel Hampton band. 1971 to 1981 he worked with the singer Anne Murray ; In 1979 he took part in the recordings of Doug Mallory . Since 1980 he has played ten years at the New Years Concerts at the George's Spaghetti House jazz club in Toronto. 1983 Thompson presented his debut album Blueprint , on which Jimmy McGriff took part; on his album C'est si bon (1989) he worked with Bob Erlendson . As a composer, Thompson wrote a variety of jazz tracks and arranged pop songs for recordings by Anne Murray, John Allan Cameron and Gordon Lightfoot . From the 1990s until his death in 2004 he lived in Vancouver.
The saxophonist should not be confused with the Canadian bassist of the same name, Don Thompson .
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| SURNAME | Thompson, Don |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thompson, William; DT |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian jazz musician, arranger and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Drumheller , Alberta |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 2004 |
| Place of death | Vancouver |