DON THOMPSON
Post Bop / Post-Fusion Contemporary • Canada
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Born: January 18, 1940, Powell River, British Columbia.
Canadian jazz multi-instrumentalist (including piano, bass, vibraphone and drums) as well as a composer, arranger and recording engineer. After childhood piano lessons he took up the string bass and the vibraphone in his teens. He is essentially self-taught on all instruments.
1960-5 he was sideman to Chris Gage (playing bass or vibraphone) and Dave Robbins (bass) and accompanied the visiting US jazzmen Barney Kessel, John Handy, and others in local nightclubs. 1965 joined Handy's quintet in the USA, touring widely and making two LPs, one of which, Live at Monterey, was among the most popular jazz recordings of the 1960s. 1967 returned to Vancouver (after working briefly in Montreal with Lee Gagnon that year) 1969 moved to Toronto. He quickly became that city's first-call studio bassist mid-1970's turned exclusively to jazz 1969-1982 (bassist) and 1988 (piano) member of the Boss Brass 1970-1982 and 1990 was pianist with Sonny Greenwich 1970-1974( bassist) and
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