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Sir Charles Thompson - Wake Up (2018)
BAND/ARTIST: Sir Charles Thompson
- Title: Wake Up
- Year Of Release: 2018
- Label: nagel heyer records
- Genre: Jazz, Swing
- Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3
- Total Time: 1:43:49
- Total Size: 571 / 238 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
01. Mr. Sandman
02. These Foolish Things
03. Bop This
04. Sweet Georgia Brown
05. Hey There
06. Keepin' out of Mischief Now
07. Oh Joe!
08. Swingtime in the Rockies
09. Dynaflow
10. Honeysuckle Rose
11. It's the Talk of the Town
12. Sir Charles at Home
13. Fore!
14. Nice Work If You Can Get It
15. Sonny Howard's Blues
16. Ready for Freddie
17. Love for Sale
18. Russian Lullaby
19. Stompin' at the Savoy
20. Memories of You
01. Mr. Sandman
02. These Foolish Things
03. Bop This
04. Sweet Georgia Brown
05. Hey There
06. Keepin' out of Mischief Now
07. Oh Joe!
08. Swingtime in the Rockies
09. Dynaflow
10. Honeysuckle Rose
11. It's the Talk of the Town
12. Sir Charles at Home
13. Fore!
14. Nice Work If You Can Get It
15. Sonny Howard's Blues
16. Ready for Freddie
17. Love for Sale
18. Russian Lullaby
19. Stompin' at the Savoy
20. Memories of You
The elegantly nicknamed Sir Charles Thompson was one of the few musicians associated with swing who was able to make a graceful, wholehearted transition to bop at the time the revolution was happening. His piano style is light-fingered and spare in a witty, inventive, Basie-descended bop manner, and he was able to adapt it effectively to the organ. Thompson's first instrument was the violin, but the piano beckoned when he was a teenager, and he started working with territory bands in the midwest in the late 1930s. He briefly joined Lionel Hampton in 1940, but left in order to work with small groups and contribute arrangements to Basie, Hampton, Fletcher Henderson, Jimmy Dorsey, and other bands. While working in New York's 52nd St. clubs during World War II, he began to pick up on the beginnings of bop. In 1944-1945, Thompson played in the Coleman Hawkins/Howard McGhee band, journeying to Hollywood with them to record several terrific swing/bop sides for Capitol (now on Hollywood Stampede) and also his lively tune "Ladies' Lullaby" for Asch. So thoroughly had Thompson absorbed the language and ethos of bop that he was able to write one of the quintessential classics of the idiom, "Robbins' Nest," which became a hit for Sir Charles' next employer, Illinois Jacquet, and inspired a haunting, pathbreaking Gil Evans arrangement for Claude Thornhill in 1947.
Thompson recorded a number of small group albums for Vanguard in the '50s, and two more for Columbia in 1959 and 1960, and appeared as a sideman for Buck Clayton and Jimmy Rushing, but spent much of the '50s freelancing as an organist. He toured the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico in the '60s leading small groups, as well as Europe with Clayton. Following a bout of ill health, he returned to action in 1975. His early bop sides for Apollo, including some with Hawkins and Charlie Parker, are available on the Delmark reissue Takin' Off. ~ Richard S. Ginell
Thompson recorded a number of small group albums for Vanguard in the '50s, and two more for Columbia in 1959 and 1960, and appeared as a sideman for Buck Clayton and Jimmy Rushing, but spent much of the '50s freelancing as an organist. He toured the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico in the '60s leading small groups, as well as Europe with Clayton. Following a bout of ill health, he returned to action in 1975. His early bop sides for Apollo, including some with Hawkins and Charlie Parker, are available on the Delmark reissue Takin' Off. ~ Richard S. Ginell
Year 2018 | Jazz | FLAC / APE | Mp3
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