Sir Thompson Charles - I Got Rhythm, Live At The Jazz ShowcaseSir Charles is best known for his historic 1945 47 Apollo recordings with Charlie Parker & Dexter Gordon. A mainstay on New York's dynamic 52nd Street scene in the '40s & '50s, Thompson recorded for Columbia, Vanguard & as a sideman with Coleman Hawkins & Illinois Jacquet. Sir Charles' album "Robbins' Nest Live at the Jazz Showcase" was applauded by critics for his ability to remain relevant to today, so Delmark went back & got more of this good

battaglie e canzoni' and 17th-century Italian organ music by Galuppi and Pasquini

The reactions were initially subdued

More than one hundred of his compositions have been recorded in an anthology of 22 albums on the Vienna Modern Masters label (including the three pieces referenced above)

from it's birth around the campfires of a non-existent Old West to it's death at the hands of Elvis and the British Invasion

Carl Reinecke

at their quintessential best

and became interested in composition shortly thereafter

but his natural facility in writing for strings was evident from a very early age

Christian Lindberg has gathered music from five different productions spanning a period of 13 years - from Fancy Free to the iconic musical West Side Story

She's married

adding elements of blues

NOTE: liner notes in German