Ed Thigpen

The first half, the Oscar Peterson Trio, and then Stan Getz Quartet, and after the pausa, the Miles Davis Quintet.

Now, I would like to introduce the members of the first group, beginning with the drummer, Ed Thigpen.

[audience applauding] In almost every country where there is an interest in jazz, the fans and the musicians, and even the critics, each year select the best people on the different instruments in jazz, and each year, the best bassist, practically everywhere in the world, is Ray Brown.

[audience applauding] For years, everyone considered the great Art Tatum as the best pianist in jazz, and unfortunately, he died, and people looked for a successor.

[jazz music][jazz music] A fairly rapturous reception there for the Oscar Peterson Trio.

That was, um, "Cubano Chant," uh, from that Zurich concert, written by, in fact, his fellow pianist Ray Bryant.

Well, let's move forward a bit to the year 1968, when Peterson made a series of recordings with the producer Hans-Georg Brunischwer with his, uh, then regular trio, which was Ray Brown on the bass and Ed Thigpen on the drums.

This is "Tin Tin Deo," composed by, uh, Chano Pozo.

Prior to that, we heard Some Other Time sung by Blossom Deary.

She played piano on that one with Kenny Burrell at the guitar, Ray Brown bass, and Ed Thigpen at the drums.

Now, saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins.

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