Eddie Thompson - Piano Mood

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:19
Size: 108.3 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[4:38] 1. My Romance
[8:09] 2. One Mohr Time
[6:55] 3. Jitterbug Waltz
[3:46] 4. How Could You Do A Thing Like That To Me
[5:07] 5. Soft Winds
[4:53] 6. Spring Is Here
[5:02] 7. I Wish I Were In Love Again
[8:46] 8. Tea For Two

A wicked little set from British pianist Eddie Thompson – a player who always wasn't as well noticed on this side of the Atlantic, but who will forever be remembered for this classic date for MPS! The set's got a great criss-crossing of styles – a punctuated way of playing the keys with roots that go back to jazz piano of the pre-war years – yet a flowing, open approach to the groove that's also pure MPS too – kind of a timeless match that's really compelling, and which makes the record unlike anything else we can think of from the time. The trio features Tony Archer on bass and Terry Jenkins on drums – and titles include "Jitterbug Waltz", "I Wish I Was In Love Again", "Tea For Two", "Spring Is Here", and "My Romance", plus the nicely grooving original, "One Mohr Time".

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Spike Robinson & Eddie Thompson Trio - At Chesters (Volume 1) And (Volume 2)

Tenor saxophonist Spike Robinson made his first trip to England after 33 years in 1984, just three years after he started to become well-known due to his first LP. Two live CDs were cut for the Hep label, and they feature Spike sounding pretty close tonewise to Stan Getz. Assisted by the excellent but underrated pianist Eddie Thompson, bassist Len Skeat and drummer Jim Hall, Robinson features his "Four Brothers" sound on some ballads and swinging versions of "S'Wonderful," "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You," "Ow" and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone." Every Spike Robinson release is worth getting by straight-ahead jazz collectors, including this set, which was reissued on CD in 1991.~Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-chesters-vol-1-mw0000665368

The second of two CDs featuring the cool-toned tenor saxophonist Spike Robinson during a gig in England is the equal of the first volume. Robinson is teamed with pianist Eddie Thompson, bassist Len Skeat, and drummer Jim Hall on eight veteran standards including "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To," "East of the Sun," and "The Way You Look Tonight." One of the last tenormen to have the "Four Brothers" sound, Robinson sometimes sounds a bit like Stan Getz but generally has his own sound within that tradition. Solid swinging and straight-ahead music.~Scott Yanow http://www.allmusic.com/album/at-chesters-vol-2-mw0000616861

Personnel:  Spike Robinson (tenor saxophone);  Eddie Thompson (piano);  Jim Hall (drums);  Len Skeat (bass).

Spike Robinson & Eddie Thompson Trio - At Chesters (Volume 1)

Styles: Saxophone And Piano Jazz
Year: 1984
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:48
Size: 130,5 MB
Art: Front

(5:11)  1. 'S Wonderful
(5:44)  2. Flamingo
(6:32)  3. Emily
(6:35)  4. I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You
(7:52)  5. I Should Care
(8:28)  6. Everything Happens To Me
(7:52)  7. Ow
(8:32)  8. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm

At Chesters (Volume 1)

Spike Robinson & Eddie Thompson Trio - At Chesters (Volume 2)
Time: 54:51
Size: 126,1 MB
Art: Front

(7:16)  1. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
(8:50)  2. Emily - Take 2
(7:16)  3. East Of The Sun
(8:05)  4. But Beautiful
(6:43)  5. The Way You Look Tonight
(7:23)  6. Skylark
(6:44)  7. I'm Beginning To See The Light
(2:32)  8. That's All

At Chesters (Volume 2)

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Eddie Thompson Trio With Roy Williams - When Lights Are Low

Styles: Piano And Trombone Jazz
Year: 1980
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:42
Size: 125,7 MB
Art: Front

(7:04)  1. The Lamp Is Low
(5:39)  2. Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now
(3:36)  3. Never Say Yes
(7:18)  4. When Lights Are Low
(5:44)  5. Don't Stop The Carnival
(5:50)  6. I've Got The World On A String
(6:33)  7. Mister Bojangles
(4:03)  8. Fred
(8:52)  9. It Never Entered My Mind

Born Edgar Charles Thompson, 31 May 1925, London, England, d. 6 November 1986, London, England. Born blind, Thompson learned to play piano as a child. In the late 40s he was active in London clubs, playing with Carlo Krahmer, Vic Feldman and others. In the 50s he played on radio, in studio bands, made records under his own name and with Tony Crombie, Tommy Whittle, Freddy Randall and others and by the end of the decade was house pianist at Ronnie Scott’s club. In the early 60s he went to the USA to live, playing regularly at the Hickory House in New York. Back in the UK in the early 70s, he led a trio that toured extensively and frequently backed visiting American jazzmen, including Buddy Tate, Ruby Braff and Spike Robinson. A dazzlingly inventive player in his early days, Thompson sometimes delivered bravura performances at the expense of feeling but in his maturity he made many memorable appearances at concerts around the UK. He had an enormous repertoire and when in musical sympathy with a guest he could be the best of accompanists. His solo playing was long overlooked by record companies but Alastair Robertson of Hep Records compensated for this with some excellent sessions in the early 80s. Thompson’s death at the age of 61 came when he was at the height of his powers.https://itunes.apple.com/nz/artist/eddie-thompson-trio/id134752047#fullText

Personnel:  Bass – Len Skeat;  Drums – Jim Hall (4);  Piano – Eddie Thompson;  Trombone – Roy Williams (3) (tracks: 2, 9)

When Lights Are Low

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Eddie Thompson Trio - Ain't She Sweet

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:49
Size: 153.0 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[6:02] 1. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
[5:18] 2. Cool Blues
[5:53] 3. Ain't She Sweet
[5:43] 4. You Are My Sunshine
[4:26] 5. Easy Does It
[5:31] 6. One Morning In May
[5:40] 7. Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
[4:21] 8. There Is No Greater Love
[3:51] 9. Just Friends
[4:59] 10. I've Got The World On A String
[4:40] 11. Wave
[4:49] 12. Why Don't You Do Right
[5:31] 13. When Lights Are Low

Eddie Thompson on piano with Len Skeat on bass and Martin Drew on drums from 1978. Recorded BBC Kensington House, London. September 23, 1978.

Pianist Eddie Thompson was born in London in1929. He attended the same school for the blind (Linden Lodge, Wandsworth), as George Shearing and was introduced to jazz through listening to the family radio and listening to Fats Waller, Earl Hines, and especially Art Tatum. By 1947 he was part of the London jazz scene and was able to supplement his jazz income, always precarious, with a career as a piano tuner.In the late 1940's he recorded with Johnny Dankworth and a very young Victor Feldman. In 1949 he played at the Paris Jazz Fair with Carlo Krahmer band and worked for a time with Victor Feldman's Sextet. He had his own quintet and trio during the early 1950s and also worked with Tony Crombie, Vic Ash, Ronnie Scott and Tommy Whittle (1957/8). At the end of the 1950s he again had his own trio and quintet. He was pianist at Ronnie Scott's 1959-60 and also did solo work at the Downbeat Club, London during 1960 before emigrating to the USA in 1962. He secured a residency at the Hickory House between 1963-67 and made many musical friendships including Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner, and Thelonious Monk. Thompson returned to the London area in 1972 for regular BBC Jazz Club gigs, and he recorded for the German BASF label and Doug Dobell's 77 label. He led his own group during the mid 1970s for a residency at the Jazz Cellar in Stockport and led his own trio as well as playing regularly at the Pizza Express in London. He was a frequent first choice for accompanying visiting US musicians until the mid 1980s.

He was at home playing mainstream or bop and possessed a prodigious technique and the ability, when he felt it necessary, to drop into the style of his heroes Garner, Peterson, and Nat Cole. Although blind he travelled to evening work in London clubs by the Underground, and also to clubs throughout the UK. Due to a lifelong smoking habit, he developed emphysema which contributed to his early death in November, 1986.

Ain't She Sweet

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Eddie Thompson Trio - Memories Of You

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 2005
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 62:31
Size: 143,4 MB
Art: Front

(6:09)  1. C Jam Blues
(6:50)  2. Rosetta
(5:05)  3. Memories of You
(6:39)  4. Misty
(6:21)  5. Paris Mambo
(5:13)  6. Round Midnight
(4:40)  7. Love Will Find a Way
(6:05)  8. Satin Doll
(4:21)  9. Memories of You (Alternate)
(6:30) 10. Round Midnight (Alternate)
(4:34) 11. Love Will Find a Way (Alternate)

Born Edgar Charles Thompson, 31 May 1925, London, England, d. 6 November 1986, London, England. Born blind, Thompson learned to play piano as a child. In the late 40s he was active in London clubs, playing with Carlo Krahmer, Vic Feldman and others. In the 50s he played on radio, in studio bands, made records under his own name and with Tony Crombie, Tommy Whittle, Freddy Randall and others and by the end of the decade was house pianist at Ronnie Scott’s club. In the early 60s he went to the USA to live, playing regularly at the Hickory House in New York. Back in the UK in the early 70s, he led a trio that toured extensively and frequently backed visiting American jazzmen, including Buddy Tate, Ruby Braff and Spike Robinson.

A dazzlingly inventive player in his early days, Thompson sometimes delivered bravura performances at the expense of feeling but in his maturity he made many memorable appearances at concerts around the UK. He had an enormous repertoire and when in musical sympathy with a guest he could be the best of accompanists. His solo playing was long overlooked by record companies but Alastair Robertson of Hep Records compensated for this with some excellent sessions in the early 80s. Thompson’s death at the age of 61 came when he was at the height of his powers. 

~ Bio  http://www.allmusic.com/artist/eddie-thompson-trio-mn0000795920/biography

Memories Of You

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Eddie Thompson Trio - Ain't She Sweet

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1998
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 66:49
Size: 153,3 MB
Art: Front

(6:02)  1. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
(5:18)  2. Cool Blues
(5:53)  3. Ain't She Sweet
(5:43)  4. You Are My Sunshine
(4:26)  5. Easy Does It
(5:31)  6. One Morning In May
(5:40)  7. Nancy (With the Laughing Face)
(4:21)  8. There Is No Greater Love
(3:51)  9. Just Friends
(4:59) 10. I've Got the World On a String
(4:40) 11. Wave
(4:49) 12. Why Don't You Do Right?
(5:31) 13. When Lights Are Low

Eddie Thompson was born in Shoreditch, London on May 31, 1925. Blind from birth he first attended Linden Lodge School for the Blind, Wandsworth (as did George Shearing) and then, during the war, at Dorton House, Seal, Sevenoaks. He had been introduced to jazz through listening to the family radio and was awestruck by such greats as Fats Waller, Earl Hines, and especially Art Tatum.  His strong personality and love of jazz eventually led to a curtailment of his formal education and by 1947 he was part of the London jazz scene and playing in the company of Vic Ash, Tony Crombie, Ronnie Scott, and Carlo Krahmer. He was able to supplement his jazz income, always precarious, with a career as a piano tuner. One of his first recordings was made in February 1948 with the Johnny Dankworth quartet which had teenage Vic Feldman on drums.

Throughout the fifties he consolidated his reputation playing with top London musicians and was at home playing mainstream or bop. In 1962 he decided to try New York as he felt he needed that challenge that only New York, then as now, can give jazz musicians. He secured a residency at the Hickory House between 1963-67 and made many musical friendships including Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner, and Thelonious Monk. In spite of a growing reputation in New York he returned to London in 1972 where he was soon in demand and formed his own trio. There were regular BBC Jazz Club gigs, he recorded for the German BASF label and Doug Dobell's 77 label, and as visiting American soloists proliferated he became one of the first call accompanists.

Eddie's strength other than his prodigious technique was that he knew literally hundreds of tunes with a preference for Gershwin. He also had the ability, when he felt it necessary, to drop into the style of his heroes Garner, Peterson, and Nat Cole. In the late seventies and early eighties he made a series of recordings for HEP as soloist and as equal musical partner along with Roy Williams and tenor saxist Spike Robinson. These are generally regarded as his finest work. Although blind he fearlessly travelled to evening work in London clubs by the Underground, and also to clubs throughout the UK often accompanied by his faithful guide dog, Maida. Sadly, due to a lifelong smoking habit, he developed emphysema which contributed to his early death on November 6, 1986. Paradoxically, in the late eighties his playing enjoyed a sudden popularity in Japan. Such an irony would have caused him to smile.  Bio ~ http://www.hepjazz.com/hep_jazz_artist_biographies/eddie_thompson.html

Personnel: Eddie Thompson (piano); Martin Drew (drums); Len Skeat ( bass).

Ain't She Sweet

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