Rich Thompson

Less Is More

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MUSIC REVIEW BY C. Michael Bailey, All About Jazz

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Rich Thompson is, or course, a drummer and educator best known as a recent drummer with the Count Basie orchestra. He assembles quite the spanking band on Less is More, filling his trumpet chair with Terell Stafford, who helps turn this collection of originals and carefully chosen standards into something special. An acoustic jazz outing, Thompson and, by extension, Stafford fold ten carefully crafted pieces into a finely integrated recital. Nominally a hard bop session, Less is More is a masters' seminar on what mainstream jazz is. Of the three discs considered here, Less is More is the most "traditional," but that does not mean it is boring.








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