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| I Got Rhythm - Live at the Jazz Showcase [ ÉLŐ ] |
| Sir Charles Thompson |
| első megjelenés éve: 1990 |
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| (2002)
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CD |
| 5.726 Ft
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| 1. | I Got Rhythm
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| 2. | Autumn Leaves
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| 3. | All the Things You Are
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| 4. | Three Little Words
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| 5. | I Want a Little Girl
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| 6. | Just You, Just Me
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| 7. | Stardust
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| 8. | If I Had You
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| 9. | Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
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| 10. | What's New?
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| 11. | Sometimes I'm Happy
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| 12. | Second Balcony Jump
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Jazz / Bop, Swing
Sir Charles Thompson - Piano
Charles Braugham - Drums
Eddie DeHaas - Bass
Eric Schneider - Sax (Alto), Clarinet, Sax (Tenor)
Al Brandtner - Design
Jack Sohmer - Liner Notes
Paul Serrano - Engineer
Robert G. Koester - Album Supervision, Producer
Steve Wagner - Engineer, Digital Producer
Arguably, Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase is to Chicago what the Village Vanguard is to New York: the city's most legendary and prestigious jazz club (which isn't to take anything away from the Green Mill, the Bop Shop, and other well-respected Windy City jazz venues). The Jazz Showcase regularly attracts jazz's major names, so it isn't surprising that Delmark would record more than one Sir Charles Thompson album there. First came 2000's Robbins' Nest: Live at the Jazz Showcase, then, in 2001, Delmark recorded and released I Got Rhythm, which has the same subtitle. This swing-to-bop CD finds an 83-year-old Thompson joined by the same musicians who accompany him on Robbins' Nest; the veteran pianist forms an acoustic trio with bassist Ed de Haas and drummer Charles Braugham, and the trio becomes a quartet when saxman/clarinetist Eric Schneider is featured on seven selections. Not many surprises occur -- most of the standards that Thompson picks have been recorded countless times over the years, and his style of playing hasn't changed much since the '40s. But then, no one expects him to reinvent the wheel at 83. While I Got Rhythm is predictable, it is also pleasing. Thompson's chops have obviously held up well over the years, and he is as expressive on swinging up-tempo fare (including "Sometimes I'm Happy," the Gershwin Brothers' "I Got Rhythm," and Lester Young's "Jumpin' With Symphony Sid") as he is on lyrical, introspective performances of well-known ballads like "What's New" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" (one of the loveliest songs of the 20th century). Like Robbins' Nest, I Got Rhythm: Live at the Jazz Showcase falls short of essential, but is a solid effort that Thompson's hardcore followers will have no problem appreciating. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
Sir Charles Thompson
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Mar 12, 1918 in Springfield, OH
Genre: Jazz
The elegantly nicknamed Sir Charles 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 1944-45, Thompson played in the Coleman HawkinsHoward 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 1950s, 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 1960s 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 a Delmark reissue, Takin' Off.
---Richard S. Ginell, All Music Guide |
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