Ed Thigpen
Edmund Leonard "Ed" Thigpen (born December 28, 1930 in Chicago , Illinois , † January 13, 2010 in Copenhagen , Denmark ) was an American jazz drummer .
Live and act
Ed Thigpen was the son of drummer Ben Thigpen , who played in the Andy Kirk Orchestra . In the 1950s Ed Thigpen played in the Cootie Williams Band and in the military in Korea from 1952 to 1954. He then worked with Jutta Hipp .
Through his father he already knew Ben Webster and Ray Brown ; in Japan he met Oscar Peterson . From 1959 he was a member of the Oscar Peterson Trio with Peterson on piano, Ray Brown as bassist and himself on drums. A classic recording from this time is We Get Requests (Verve 1965). Verve also released his album Out Of The Storm in 1966 with Herbie Hancock on piano.
In 1965 Thigpen left the trio and went to Los Angeles , then to Copenhagen in 1972 . There he first worked with Kenny Drew , Ernie Wilkins , Thad Jones , Svend Asmussen and Mads Vinding . He later appeared with Eric Watson , John Lindberg , Albert Mangelsdorff , with Horace Parlan as well as with Nnenna Freelon and with Katrine Madsen . He also released other albums under his own name with his trio and other combo lineups. Tom Lord has 355 recordings of Thigpen in the field of jazz.
Thigpen was the author of several drums textbooks.
Instruments
Ed Thigpen preferred a Remo drum kit in the configuration: bass drum 18 ", hanging tom 12", standing tom 14 ", standing tom 16", snare , hi-hat and three cymbals .
Works
- Rhythm analysis and coordination basis , Advance Music, Rottenburg, 1979
- The Sounds of Brushes , Action-Reaction, Copenhagen, 1981, ISBN 0-7692-3363-5
Lexical entries
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 10185). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-15-010185-9 .
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz music. 1700 artists and bands from the beginning until today. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1999, ISBN 3-476-01584-X .
- Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Jazz Discography (online November 15, 2013)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thigpen, Ed |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thigpen, Edmund Leonard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz drummer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 2010 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |