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American jazz drummer (1930–2010)
Edmund Leonard Thigpen
(1930-12-28 ) December 28, 1930
January 13, 2010(2010-01-13) (aged 79 )Copenhagen , Denmark
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Edmund Leonard Thigpen (December 28, 1930 – January 13, 2010)[1] 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.
Biography [ edit ]
Born in Chicago , Illinois , United States, Thigpen was raised in Los Angeles , California , and attended Thomas Jefferson High School , where Art Farmer , Dexter Gordon , and Chico Hamilton also attended. 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.[2] 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 Mellé , 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, Ontario , Canada. In 1961, he recorded in Los Angeles, featuring on the Teddy Edwards –Howard McGhee Quintet album entitled Together Again!!!! Contemporary label with Phineas Newborn Jr. and Ray Brown . After leaving Peterson, Thigpen recorded the album Out of the Storm Verve in 1966. He then went on to tour with Ella Fitzgerald from 1967 to 1972.[3]
In 1972, Thigpen moved to Copenhagen , joining several other American jazz musicians who had settled in that city over the previous two decades.[4] 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 .
Thigpen died peacefully after a brief period in Hvidovre Hospital in Copenhagen on January 13, 2010.[1] Parkinson's disease . He is buried at Vestre Kirkegård .
Awards and recognition [ edit ]
Thigpen was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 2002.[5]
Discography [ edit ]
As leader [ edit ]
Out of the Storm
Action-Re-Action (Sonet , 1974)
Explosive Drums (Black & Blue, 1974)
Young Men and Olds (Timeless , 1990)
Easy Flight (Stunt , 1990)
Mr. Taste (Justin Time Records , 1992)
It's Entertainment (Stunt, 1998)
Element of Swing (Stunt, 2002)
#1 (Stunt, 2004)
As sideman [ edit ]
Sock!
With Art Farmer
With Jutta Hipp
With Duke Jordan
With Gil Mellé
With Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Plays "My Fair Lady"
Sonny Stitt Sits in with the Oscar Peterson Trio
A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra
The Jazz Soul of Oscar Peterson
Porgy and Bess (Verve, 1959)
Oscar Peterson Plays the Duke Ellington Songbook
Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook
Oscar Peterson Plays the Richard Rodgers Songbook
Oscar Peterson Plays the Jerome Kern Songbook
Oscar Peterson Plays the Cole Porter Songbook
Oscar Peterson Plays the Harry Warren Songbook
Oscar Peterson Plays the Irving Berlin Songbook
Oscar Peterson Plays the Harold Arlen Songbook
Oscar Peterson Plays the Jimmy McHugh Songbook
Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess
Swinging Brass with the Oscar Peterson Trio
Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
Live from Chicago (Verve, 1961)
Very Tall
Night Train
Affinity
West Side Story (Verve, 1962)
The Oscar Peterson Trio in Tokyo 1964 (Pablo , 1964)
We Get Requests
Oscar Peterson Trio + One
I/We Had a Ball
Eloquence
Oscar Peterson with Clark Terry (Mercury Jazz Masters , 1982)
With Ella Fitzgerald
With Billy Taylor
With Paul Quinichette and Charlie Rouse
The Chase Is On (Bethlehem , 1958) – rec. 1957
When The Blues Comes On, Pt. 1&2 (Bethlehem, 1957)
With others
Toshiko Akiyoshi , The Toshiko Trio Storyville , 1956)[6]
Dorothy Ashby , The Jazz Harpist
Svend Asmussen , As Time Goes By (Sonet, 1978)
Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra , Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra
Kenny Burrell , Earthy
Benny Carter , Summer Serenade
Teddy Charles , Salute to Hamp (Bethlehem, 1958)
Kenny Drew , Your Soft Eyes
Teddy Edwards –Howard McGhee Quintet, Howard McGhee/Teddy Edwards – Together Again!!!! (Contemporary M 3588, S 7588; Fantasy OJC 424, OJCCD 424-2)
Dexter Gordon , More Than You Know
Johnny Griffin , Blues for Harvey
Indianerne, Sound (ILK Music, 2011)[LP ] – rec. 2009–10
Oliver Jones , A Class Act (Justin Time Records , 1991)
John Lindberg, Albert Mangelsdorff & Eric Watson, Quartet Afterstorm (Black Saint , 1994)
Mundell Lowe , A Grand Night for Swinging
Howard McGhee and Teddy Edwards , Together Again!!!!
Frank Minion , The Soft Land of Make Believe (Bethlehem, 1959)
Tony Ortega , Jazz for Young Moderns (Bethlehem, 1959) – rec. 1958–59
Horace Parlan , Arrival SteepleChase , 1973)
Oscar Pettiford , Winner's Circle (Bethlehem , 1957)
Jack van Poll , Cat's Groove (September, 1988)
Paul Quinichette , On the Sunny Side
Charlie Rouse and Paul Quinichette , The Chase Is On
Cal Tjader , The Prophet (Verve 1968)
Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson , Clean Head's Back in Town
Eric Watson and Mark Dresser , Silent Hearts (Sunnyside, 2001)
Frank Wess , Jazz for Playboys
Ernie Wilkins on the Everest labe, Everest Years (VI Music , 2005)
Kai Winding and Curtis Fuller , Giant Bones '80
Webster Young , For Lady
References [ edit ]
^ Keepnews, Peter (January 26, 2010). "Ed Thigpen, Jazz Drummer, Dies at 79" . The New York Times
^ Colin Larkin , ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music Guinness Publishing . p. 2475. ISBN 0-85112-939-0
^ Mattingly, Rick. "PAS Hall of Fame: Ed Thigpen" . Percussive Arts Society . Retrieved March 1, 2014 .
^ "Allmusic: The Toshiko Trio (1956)" . AllMusic . Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
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