'One of the few multi-instrumentalists who sounds virtuosic on each chosen instrument, Don Thompson has made significant musical contributions on vibes, bass, and piano. His uncanny ability to move flawlessly from instrument to instrument has made him a valued sideman on the Toronto, and international, jazz scene.Thompson was born in Powell River, British Columbia, in 1940. By 1960, he had begun working steadily as a freelance musician, at this point, mainly on bass. In 1965, Thompson joined the now legen...   [ read more ]

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Unsung rockabilly legend Hayden Thompson didn't have any hits. The few sides he cut for Sun records in 1956 and 1957 sadly fell through the cracks. Bear Family's single-disc compilation Rockabilly Gal: The Sun Years Plus highlights those lost definitive sides and much more. Thompson's most sought after track, "Love My Baby," may be more familiar via Junior Parker's original or Robert Gordon's version on his Rock Billy Boogie album. Backed up by Billy Lee Riley's band with {...   [ read more ]

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As the year 2000 loomed on the horizon, Playboy Magazine took it upon itself to ask a number of leading musicians to name the greatest songs of the soon-to-be-completed millennium. One of the musos queried was Richard Thompson, and while many of his comrades couldn't be bothered to go further back than 1940 in their overview of musical history, the scholarly Thompson took the notion seriously enough to extend his own list of notable songs as far back as 1068 A.D. While Playboy never ended up pr...   [ read more ]

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