Ed Thigpen
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Edmund Leonard "Ed" Thigpen (December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010) was an American
jazz drummer
, best-known for his work with the Oscar Peterson
trio from 1959 to 1965. Thigpen also performed with the Billy Taylor
trio from 1956 to 1959.
and attended Thomas Jefferson High School, which was also attended by Art Farmer
, Dexter Gordon
and Chico Hamilton
. After majoring in sociology at Los Angeles City College
, Thigpen returned to East St. Louis for one year to pursue music while living with his father who had been playing with Andy Kirk
’s Clouds of Joy. His father Ben Thigpen
was a drummer
who played with Andy Kirk for sixteen years during the 1930s and 1940s.
Thigpen first worked professionally in New York City
with the Cootie Williams
orchestra from 1951 to 1952 at the Savoy Ballroom
. During this time he played with musicians such as Dinah Washington
, Gil Melle
, Oscar Pettiford
, Eddie Vinson
, Paul Quinichette
, Ernie Wilkins
, Charlie Rouse
, Lennie Tristano
, Jutta Hipp
, Johnny Hodges
, Dorothy Ashby
, Bud Powell
, and Billy Taylor
.
In 1959 he replaced guitarist
Herb Ellis
in the Oscar Peterson
Trio in Toronto, Canada. In 1961 he recorded in Los Angeles, featuring on the Teddy Edwards
–Howard McGhee
Quintet album entitled Together Again for the Contemporary
label with Phineas Newborn, Jr. and Ray Brown
. After leaving Peterson, Thigpen recorded the album Out of the Storm as a leader for Verve
in 1966. He then went on to tour with Ella Fitzgerald
from 1967 to 1972.
In 1974 Thigpen moved to Copenhagen
, joining several other American jazz musicians who over the past two decades had settled in the city. There he worked with fellow American expatriates, including Kenny Drew
, Ernie Wilkins
, Thad Jones
, as well as leading Danish jazz musicians such as Svend Asmussen
, Mads Vinding
, Alex Riel
and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
. He also played with a variety of other leading musicians of the time, such as Clark Terry
, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Milt Jackson
and Monty Alexander
.
Ed Thigpen died peacefully after a brief period in Hvidovre Hospital (Copenhagen, Denmark) on January 13, 2010. He is buried at Vestre Kirkegård.
Stunt Records
Quartet:
with Jutta Hipp
with Gil Melle
:
with Billy Taylor
:
with Paul Quinichette
and Charlie Rouse
:
with Eddie Vinson
:
with Oscar Pettiford
:
with Oscar Peterson
:
with Teddy Charles
:
with Tony Ortega:
with Frank Minion:
with Teddy Edwards
–Howard McGhee
Quintet
with Ella Fitzgerald
:
with Horace Parlan
with Svend Asmussen
:
with Jack van Poll:
with Oliver Jones:
with John Lindberg, Albert Mangelsdorff
& Eric Watson:
with Eric Watson and Mark Dresser
:
with Ernie Wilkins
on the Everest
label:
with Kresten Osgood
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
jazz drummer
Jazz drumming
Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz-rock fusion and 1980s-era latin jazz...
, best-known for his work with the Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
trio from 1959 to 1965. Thigpen also performed with the Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and since 1994, he was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in...
trio from 1956 to 1959.
Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Thigpen was raised in Los Angeles, CaliforniaLos Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
and attended Thomas Jefferson High School, which was also attended by Art Farmer
Art Farmer
Arthur Stewart "Art" Farmer was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet/flugelhorn combination designed for him by David Monette. His identical twin brother, Addison Farmer Arthur Stewart "Art" Farmer (August 21, 1928, Council Bluffs, Iowa –...
, Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and an Academy Award-nominated actor . He is regarded as one of the first and most important musicians to adapt the bebop musical language of people like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Bud Powell to the tenor saxophone...
and Chico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton , is an American jazz drummer and bandleader.-Early life through 1960s:Hamilton was born in Los Angeles, California. He had a fast-track musical education in a band with Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Collette and Jack Kelso...
. After majoring in sociology at Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles City College, known as LACC, is a public community college in the East Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California. A part of the Los Angeles Community College District, it is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard...
, Thigpen returned to East St. Louis for one year to pursue music while living with his father who had been playing with Andy Kirk
Andy Kirk
Andrew Dewey Kirk was a jazz saxophonist and tubist best known as a bandleader of the "Twelve Clouds of Joy," popular during the swing era....
’s Clouds of Joy. His father Ben Thigpen
Ben Thigpen
Ben Thigpen was an American jazz drummer. He is the father of drummer Ed Thigpen.Ben Thigpen played piano as a child, having been trained by his sister Eva. He played in South Bend, Indiana with Bobby Boswell in the 1920s, and then moved to Chicago to study under Jimmy Bertrand. While there he...
was a drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
who played with Andy Kirk for sixteen years during the 1930s and 1940s.
Thigpen first worked professionally in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
with the Cootie Williams
Cootie Williams
Charles Melvin "Cootie" Williams was an American jazz, jump blues, and rhythm and blues trumpeter.-Biography:...
orchestra from 1951 to 1952 at the Savoy Ballroom
Savoy Ballroom
The Savoy Ballroom, located in Harlem, New York City, was a medium sized ballroom for music and public dancing that was in operation from March 12, 1926 to July 10, 1958. It was located between 140th and 141st Streets on Lenox Avenue....
. During this time he played with musicians such as Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington
Dinah Washington, born Ruth Lee Jones , was an American blues, R&B and jazz singer. She has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s", and called "The Queen of the Blues"...
, Gil Melle
Gil Melle
Gil Mellé was an American artist, jazz musician and film composer.In the 1950s, Mellé's paintings and sculptures were shown in New York galleries and he created the cover art for albums by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins...
, Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer known particularly for his pioneering work in bebop.-Biography:...
, Eddie Vinson
Eddie Vinson
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product.-Biography:Vinson was born in Houston, Texas...
, Paul Quinichette
Paul Quinichette
Paul Quinichette was a jazz tenor saxophone musician. He was known as the Vice President or Vice Prez for his uncanny emulation of the breathy style of Lester Young, known as Prez. Young, who affectionately called everyone "Lady ****" , called him "Lady Q"...
, Ernie Wilkins
Ernie Wilkins
Ernest Brooks Wilkins Jr. was a jazz arranger and writer who also played tenor saxophone. He might be best known for his work with Count Basie. He also wrote for Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Dizzy Gillespie...
, Charlie Rouse
Charlie Rouse
Charlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. His career is marked by the collaboration for more than ten years with Thelonious Monk.- Biography :...
, Lennie Tristano
Lennie Tristano
Leonard Joseph Tristano was a jazz pianist, composer and teacher of jazz improvisation. He performed in the cool jazz, bebop, post bop and avant-garde jazz genres. He remains a somewhat overlooked figure in jazz history, but his enormous originality and dazzling work as an improviser have long...
, Jutta Hipp
Jutta Hipp
Jutta Hipp was a jazz pianist who also had some success as a painter. She mostly worked in bebop and cool jazz....
, Johnny Hodges
Johnny Hodges
John Cornelius "Johnny" Hodges was an American alto saxophonist, best known for his solo work with Duke Ellington's big band. He played lead alto in the saxophone section for many years, except the period between 1932–1946 when Otto Hardwick generally played first chair...
, Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy Ashby
Dorothy Ashby was an American jazz harpist and composer.Along with Alice Coltrane, Ashby extended the popularization of jazz harp past a novelty, showing how the instrument can be utilized seamlessly as much a bebop instrument as the saxophone...
, Bud Powell
Bud Powell
Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell was an American Jazz pianist. Powell has been described as one of "the two most significant pianists of the style of modern jazz that came to be known as bop", the other being his friend and contemporary Thelonious Monk...
, and Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and since 1994, he was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in...
.
In 1959 he replaced guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
Herb Ellis
Herb Ellis
Mitchell Herbert "Herb" Ellis was an American jazz guitarist. Perhaps best known for his 1950s membership in the trio of pianist Oscar Peterson, Ellis was also a staple of west-coast studio recording sessions, and was described by critic Scott Yanow as "an excellent bop-based guitarist with a...
in the Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
Trio in Toronto, Canada. In 1961 he recorded in Los Angeles, featuring on the Teddy Edwards
Teddy Edwards
Theodore Marcus "Teddy" Edwards was an American jazz tenor saxophonist based on the West Coast of the US. Some consider him to be one of the most influential jazz saxophonists.-Biography:...
–Howard McGhee
Howard McGhee
Howard McGhee was one of the very first bebop jazz trumpeters, together with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for lightning-fast fingers and very high notes...
Quintet album entitled Together Again for the Contemporary
Contemporary Records
Contemporary Records was a jazz record label founded by Lester Koenig in 1951 in Los Angeles. Contemporary was known for seminal recordings embodying the West Coast sound, but also released recordings based in New York...
label with Phineas Newborn, Jr. and Ray Brown
Ray Brown (musician)
Raymond Matthews Brown was an American jazz double bassist.-Biography:Ray Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had piano lessons from the age of eight. After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but was unable to afford one...
. After leaving Peterson, Thigpen recorded the album Out of the Storm as a leader for Verve
Verve Records
Verve Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded by Norman Granz in 1956, absorbing the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records , and material which had been licensed to Mercury previously.-Jazz and folk origins:The Verve...
in 1966. He then went on to tour with Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
from 1967 to 1972.
In 1974 Thigpen moved to Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, joining several other American jazz musicians who over the past two decades had settled in the city. There he worked with fellow American expatriates, including Kenny Drew
Kenny Drew
Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew was an American jazz pianist.-Biography:Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington...
, Ernie Wilkins
Ernie Wilkins
Ernest Brooks Wilkins Jr. was a jazz arranger and writer who also played tenor saxophone. He might be best known for his work with Count Basie. He also wrote for Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Dizzy Gillespie...
, Thad Jones
Thad Jones
Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.-Biography:Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten . Thad Jones was a self taught musician, performing professionally by the age of sixteen...
, as well as leading Danish jazz musicians such as Svend Asmussen
Svend Asmussen
Svend Asmussen is a jazz violinist from Denmark, known as "The Fiddling Viking". Asmussen grew up in a musical family, starting violin lessons at age 7. At age 16 he first heard recordings by jazz violin great Joe Venuti and began to emulate his style...
, Mads Vinding
Mads Vinding
Mads Vinding is a Danish jazz double-bassist.He is a Danish jazz musicians, and one of the 'aces of basses' with more than 600 recordings to his credit. Professional at age 16, Vinding became the house-bassplayer at Café Montmartre, the legendary jazz club in Copenhagen...
, Alex Riel
Alex Riel
Alex Riel, , is a Danish jazz and rock drummer. His first group Alex Riel/Palle Mikkelborg Quintet won Montreux Grand Prix Award at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968 and it was published in Billboards June 1968 edition.-Biography:Riel has recorded with, among others, Kenny Drew, Kenny Werner, Bob...
and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
- Discography :* My Name Is Albert Ayler 1963 * Kirk in Copenhagen 1963 * Ben Webster in Denmark 1965-1971 Live at Danish Radio studios, Jazzhus Montmartre and Odd Fellow Palæet - Universal Music Denmark*One Flight Up 1964 *Sunday Walk 1969 - Discography :* My Name Is Albert Ayler 1963 (with...
. He also played with a variety of other leading musicians of the time, such as Clark Terry
Clark Terry
Clark Terry is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, NEA Jazz Masters inductee, and recipient of the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award...
, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Milt Jackson
Milt Jackson
Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms...
and Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander
Monty Alexander is a jazz pianist and melodica player. His playing has a strong Caribbean influence and swinging feeling, but he has also been influenced by Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, and Ahmad Jamal.-Biography:Alexander discovered the piano at the age of 4, taking classical music...
.
Ed Thigpen died peacefully after a brief period in Hvidovre Hospital (Copenhagen, Denmark) on January 13, 2010. He is buried at Vestre Kirkegård.
As leader
- 1961: Trio: Live from Chicago (Verve Records)
- 1966: Out of the Storm (Verve Records)
- 1974: Action-Re-Action
- 1990: Young Men and Olds (Timeless RecordsTimeless RecordsTimeless Records is a jazz record label from The Netherlands.Timeless was founded in Wageningen in 1975 by Wim Wigt. It has specialized in bebop, though it also did a subseries of important releases of Dixieland and swing recordings. As of ca...
) - 1992: Mr. Taste (Justin Time RecordsJustin Time RecordsJustin Time Records, Inc. is a Canadian independent record label based in Montreal. It was established in 1983 and specialises mostly in jazz and blues...
)
Stunt Records
Stunt Records
Stunt Records is an independent record label formed in 1990 by Daniel Amos, Terry Scott Taylor and Tom Gulotta.The original intent of the label was to focus on reissues and special releases by D.A., but soon, the label was releasing CDs by a variety of artists including two Various Artists...
- 1990: Easy Flight
- 1998: It's Entertainment
- 2002: Element of Swing
- 2004: #1
As sideman
with the Dorothy AshbyDorothy Ashby
Dorothy Ashby was an American jazz harpist and composer.Along with Alice Coltrane, Ashby extended the popularization of jazz harp past a novelty, showing how the instrument can be utilized seamlessly as much a bebop instrument as the saxophone...
Quartet:
- The Jazz Harpist (1956; RegentRegent RecordsRegent Records has been the name of at least two different record labels:*Regent Records - an American based company*Regent Records - a British company...
)
with Jutta Hipp
Jutta Hipp
Jutta Hipp was a jazz pianist who also had some success as a painter. She mostly worked in bebop and cool jazz....
- At the Hickory House Volume 1At the Hickory House-Track listing:# "Take Me in Your Arms" - 4:54 # "Dear Old Stockholm" - 4:44 # "Billie's Bounce" - 4:06 # "I'll Remember April" - 3:52...
(1956) - At the Hickory House Volume 2At the Hickory House-Track listing:# "Take Me in Your Arms" - 4:54 # "Dear Old Stockholm" - 4:44 # "Billie's Bounce" - 4:06 # "I'll Remember April" - 3:52...
(1956) - Jutta Hipp with Zoot SimsJutta Hipp with Zoot SimsJutta Hipp with Zoot Sims is an album by German jazz pianist Jutta Hipp recorded in 1956 which was released on the Blue Note label as BLP 1530.-Reception:...
(1956)
with Gil Melle
Gil Melle
Gil Mellé was an American artist, jazz musician and film composer.In the 1950s, Mellé's paintings and sculptures were shown in New York galleries and he created the cover art for albums by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins...
:
- Patterns in JazzPatterns in JazzPatterns in Jazz is an album by American saxophonist Gil Mellé recorded in 1956 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "Gil Melle's debut album for Blue Note, is filled with bright, bold colors and...
(1956; Blue NoteBlue Note RecordsBlue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...
) - Gil's GuestsGil's GuestsGil's Guests is an album by American saxophonist Gil Mellé recorded in 1956 and released on the Prestige label.-Reception:The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and stated "Baritonist Gil Melle's recordings are usually a bit unusual and this CD reissue is no exception.....
(1957; PrestigePrestige RecordsPrestige Records was a jazz record label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock. The company was located at 203 South Washington Avenue in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under the names of several...
)
with Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor
Billy Taylor was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was the Robert L. Jones Distinguished Professor of Music at East Carolina University in Greenville, and since 1994, he was the artistic director for jazz at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in...
:
- My Fair Lady Loves JazzMy Fair Lady Loves JazzMy Fair Lady Loves Jazz is an album by American jazz pianist Billy Taylor featuring performances of show tunes from the musical My Fair Lady recorded in 1957 and originally released on the ABC-Paramount label and rereleased Impulse! label in 1964 following the release of the film.-Reception:The...
(1957; ABC RecordsABC RecordsABC Records was an American record label, founded in New York City in 1955 as ABC-Paramount Records. It originated as the main popular music label operated the Am-Par Record Corporation, the music subsidiary of the American Broadcasting Company . ABC-Paramount Records' first president was Samuel H....
) - The New Billy Taylor Trio (1957; ABC)
with Paul Quinichette
Paul Quinichette
Paul Quinichette was a jazz tenor saxophone musician. He was known as the Vice President or Vice Prez for his uncanny emulation of the breathy style of Lester Young, known as Prez. Young, who affectionately called everyone "Lady ****" , called him "Lady Q"...
and Charlie Rouse
Charlie Rouse
Charlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. His career is marked by the collaboration for more than ten years with Thelonious Monk.- Biography :...
:
- "The Chase Is On" (1957; BethlehemBethlehem RecordsBethlehem Records was a record label based in New York and Hollywood founded by Gus Wildi in 1953. It was bought by King Records in the early 1960s....
) - When The Blues Comes On, Pt. 1&2 (1957; BethlehemBethlehem RecordsBethlehem Records was a record label based in New York and Hollywood founded by Gus Wildi in 1953. It was bought by King Records in the early 1960s....
)
with Eddie Vinson
Eddie Vinson
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after an incident in which his hair was accidentally destroyed by lye contained in a hair straightening product.-Biography:Vinson was born in Houston, Texas...
:
- Cleanhead's Back in Town (1957; BethlehemBethlehem RecordsBethlehem Records was a record label based in New York and Hollywood founded by Gus Wildi in 1953. It was bought by King Records in the early 1960s....
)
with Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford
Oscar Pettiford was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer known particularly for his pioneering work in bebop.-Biography:...
:
- Winner's Circle (1957; BethlehemBethlehem RecordsBethlehem Records was a record label based in New York and Hollywood founded by Gus Wildi in 1953. It was bought by King Records in the early 1960s....
)
with Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his friends. He released over 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, and received other numerous awards and honours over the course of his career...
:
- Oscar Peterson Plays "My Fair Lady"Oscar Peterson Plays "My Fair Lady"Oscar Peterson Plays "My Fair Lady" is a 1958 album by pianist Oscar Peterson of compositions written by the songwriting duo, Lerner and Loewe...
(1958, Verve) - Sonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson TrioSonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson TrioSonny Stitt Sits In with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1957 album by Sonny Stitt, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson trio. -Track listing:# "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" – 4:05# "Au Privave" – 3:59...
(1958, Verve) - A Jazz Portrait of Frank SinatraA Jazz Portrait of Frank SinatraA Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra is a 1959 album by The Oscar Peterson trio, recorded in tribute to Frank Sinatra. -Track listing:# "You Make Me Feel So Young" – 2:40...
(1959, Verve) - The Jazz Soul of Oscar PetersonThe Jazz Soul of Oscar PetersonThe Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson is a 1959 album by Oscar Peterson.-Track listing:# "Liza " – 4:29# "Con Alma" – 6:55# "Close Your Eyes" – 5:42...
(1959, Verve) - Oscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington Song book is a 1959 album by pianist Oscar Peterson of compositions written or performed by Duke Ellington...
(1959, Verve) - Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook is a 1959 album by pianist Oscar Peterson of compositions written by George Gershwin. Peterson had recorded many of the pieces for his 1952 album Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin.-Track listing:...
(1959, Verve) - Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Songbook is a 1959 studio album by pianist Oscar Peterson of compositions written by Richard Rodgers...
(1959, Verve) - Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Songbook is a 1959 album by Oscar Peterson, of compositions by Jerome Kern. -Track listing:# "I Won't Dance" – 2:32# "Bill" – 2:58...
(1959, Verve) - Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook is a 1959 album by Oscar Peterson, of compositions by Cole Porter. -Track listing:# "In the Still of the Night" – 2:49# "It's All Right With Me" – 2:51# "Love for Sale" – 3:26...
(1959, Verve) - Oscar Peterson Plays the Harry Warren Songbook (1959, Verve)
- Oscar Peterson Plays the Irving Berlin Songbook (1959, Verve)
- Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen SongbookOscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, released in 1959 . It was reissued in 2001 in combination with the 1954 recording Oscar Peterson Plays Harold Arlen.-Track listing:...
(1959, Verve) - Oscar Peterson Plays the Jimmy McHugh Songbook (1959, Verve)
- Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & BessOscar Peterson Plays Porgy & BessOscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess is a 1959 studio album by Oscar Peterson, playing selections from George Gershwin's 1935 opera, Porgy and Bess...
(1959, Verve) - Swinging Brass with the Oscar Peterson TrioSwinging Brass with the Oscar Peterson TrioSwinging Brass with the Oscar Peterson Trio is a 1959 studio album by Oscar Peterson, arranged by Russell Garcia. -Track listing:# "Con Alma" – 7:00# "Blues for Big Scotia" – 3:51...
(1959, Verve) - Ben Webster Meets Oscar PetersonBen Webster Meets Oscar PetersonBen Webster Meets Oscar Peterson is a 1959 studio album featuring a jazz trio, led by the Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, with the tenor saxophonist Ben Webster.-Track listing:#"The Touch of Your Lips" – 6:20...
(1959, Verve) - Live From Chicago (1961, Verve)
- Night TrainNight TrainNight Train or Nightrain may refer to:*Night train, a train that runs at night, see sleeping car.-Music:*Night Train , an Australian rock bandAlbums*Night Train , an album by the Oscar Peterson Trio...
(1962, Verve) - The Oscar Peterson Trio in Tokyo 1964 (1964; PabloPablo RecordsPablo Records was a record label founded by Norman Granz in 1972, some ten years after he had sold his jazz labels to MGM Records....
) - We Get RequestsWe Get RequestsWe Get Requests is a 1964 album by Oscar Peterson.-Track listing:#"Corcovado" – 2:49#"Days of Wine and Roses" – 2:40#"My One and Only Love" – 5:08...
(1964, Verve) - EloquenceEloquence (album)Eloquence is a 1965 live album by Oscar Peterson. Eloquence was the Oscar Peterson trio's last album with drummer Ed Thigpen.-Track listing:#"Children's Tune" – 1:09...
(1965, Limelight)
with Teddy Charles
Teddy Charles
Teddy Charles is an American jazz pianist, drummer and vibraphone musician. Born Theodore Charles Cohen in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, he began his musical career studying at Juilliard School of Music as a percussionist...
:
- Salute to Hamp (1958; BethlehemBethlehem RecordsBethlehem Records was a record label based in New York and Hollywood founded by Gus Wildi in 1953. It was bought by King Records in the early 1960s....
)
with Tony Ortega:
- Jazz for Young Moderns (1958, 1959; BethlehemBethlehem RecordsBethlehem Records was a record label based in New York and Hollywood founded by Gus Wildi in 1953. It was bought by King Records in the early 1960s....
)
with Frank Minion:
- The Soft Land of Make Believe (1959; BethlehemBethlehem RecordsBethlehem Records was a record label based in New York and Hollywood founded by Gus Wildi in 1953. It was bought by King Records in the early 1960s....
)
with Teddy Edwards
Teddy Edwards
Theodore Marcus "Teddy" Edwards was an American jazz tenor saxophonist based on the West Coast of the US. Some consider him to be one of the most influential jazz saxophonists.-Biography:...
–Howard McGhee
Howard McGhee
Howard McGhee was one of the very first bebop jazz trumpeters, together with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro and Idrees Sulieman. He was known for lightning-fast fingers and very high notes...
Quintet
- Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards – Together Again! (Contemporary M 3588, S 7588; Fantasy OJC 424, OJCCD 424-2)
with Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...
:
- Ella in Budapest, HungaryElla in Budapest, HungaryElla in Budapest, Hungary is a live album recorded in 1970 by Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by the Tommy Flanagan trio.The album remained unreleased until 1999 when it was issued by Pablo Records.-Track listing:...
(1970; PabloPablo RecordsPablo Records was a record label founded by Norman Granz in 1972, some ten years after he had sold his jazz labels to MGM Records....
) - Ella à NiceElla à NiceElla à Nice is a 1972 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a jazz trio led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan...
(1971; Pablo LivePablo RecordsPablo Records was a record label founded by Norman Granz in 1972, some ten years after he had sold his jazz labels to MGM Records....
) - Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72Jazz at Santa Monica '72 is a 1972 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by a jazz trio led by the pianist Tommy Flanagan, and the Count Basie Orchestra....
(1972; PabloPablo RecordsPablo Records was a record label founded by Norman Granz in 1972, some ten years after he had sold his jazz labels to MGM Records....
) - Ella Loves ColeElla Loves ColeElla Loves Cole is a 1972 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald.This was Fitzgerald's first album of songs dedicated to a single composer since 1964's Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook, and her second collection of songs by Cole Porter, her first being the memorable 1956 album, Ella...
(1972; AtlanticAtlantic RecordsAtlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...
), reissued as "Dream Dancing (1978; PabloPablo RecordsPablo Records was a record label founded by Norman Granz in 1972, some ten years after he had sold his jazz labels to MGM Records....
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with Horace Parlan
Horace Parlan
Horace Parlan is an American hard bop and post-bop piano player.He is noted for his contributions to the classic Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots....
- ArrivalArrival (Horace Parlan album)Arrival is an album by American Jazz pianist Horace Parlan featuring performances recorded in 1973 and released on the Danish-based SteepleChase label...
(1973, SteepleChaseSteepleChase RecordsSteepleChase Records is a jazz record label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time...
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with Svend Asmussen
Svend Asmussen
Svend Asmussen is a jazz violinist from Denmark, known as "The Fiddling Viking". Asmussen grew up in a musical family, starting violin lessons at age 7. At age 16 he first heard recordings by jazz violin great Joe Venuti and began to emulate his style...
:
- As Time Goes By (1978; Sonet Records)
with Jack van Poll:
- Cat's Groove (1988; September Records)
with Oliver Jones:
- A Class Act (1991; Justin Time Records)
with John Lindberg, Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff
Albert Mangelsdorff was one of the most accredited and innovative trombonists of modern jazz who became famous for his distinctive technique of playing multiphonics.-Biography:...
& Eric Watson:
- Quartet Afterstorm (1994; Black Saint)
with Eric Watson and Mark Dresser
Mark Dresser
Mark Dresser is an American double bass player and composer.-Biography:He has performed and recorded with many of the luminaries of "new" jazz composition and improvisation. For ten years he performed with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well as diverse groups led by Ray Anderson, Tim Berne,...
:
- Silent Hearts (2001; Sunnyside Records)
with Ernie Wilkins
Ernie Wilkins
Ernest Brooks Wilkins Jr. was a jazz arranger and writer who also played tenor saxophone. He might be best known for his work with Count Basie. He also wrote for Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, and Dizzy Gillespie...
on the Everest
Everest Records
Everest Records was a stereophonic record label based in Bayside, Long Island started by Harry D. Belock and Bert Whyte in May 1958. It was devoted mainly to classical music.-History:...
label:
- Everest Years (CD; 1959, 1960; 2005; VI MusicVI MusicVI Music is a Puerto Rican record label specializing in the reggaeton genre founded by the reggaeton artist Mario VI and Juan Vidal-Selected artists:*Angel & Khriz*Don Omar*Eliel*Magnate & Valentino*Mario VI*Gocho*Alex Gargolas*Echo...
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with Kresten Osgood
- Sound (vinyl; 2011; Ilk Records)
External links
- Ed Thigpen Online
- Ed Thigpen - Daily Telegraph obituary
- Ed Thigpen obituary The Guardian