1954 10" SIR CHARLES THOMPSON DG 1A/1A 1st Press VG++
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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
~RECORDELITE~
RARE AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL LP AUCTIONS~
SIR CHARLES THOMPSON
"SIR CHARLES THOMPSON AND HIS BAND"
*** ORIGINAL MONO 10" FIRST PRESSING ***
**AUTHENTIC 1954 Deep Groove RELEASE *
"1A/1A" First Press Matrix
ORIG SILVER AND RED VANGUARD LABELFEATURING COLEMAN HAWKINS!!
VANGUARD Records VRS 8009
VINYL:STRONG VG++
Hi luster and no groovewear
COVER: strong VG++ to NM-
No ringwear and light edgewear
No bar code
No stains, tears
owner's name in light red crayon on back cover rt corner
LABEL: NM-
Light "spidering" effect near spindlehole
SOUND TESTED: VERY Solid with strong bass
light surface noise present
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