Les Thompson | jazzcollector.com https://jazzcollector.com For those who love jazz Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:20:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 175772384 Finding Some Surprising Dexter and Wardell https://jazzcollector.com/rca/finding-some-surprising-dexter-and-wardell/ https://jazzcollector.com/rca/finding-some-surprising-dexter-and-wardell/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:15:13 +0000 http://jazzcollector.com/?p=3256 One of the things I love about collecting jazz records is that there always seems to be something new to discover. Case in point: Last [...]

The post Finding Some Surprising Dexter and Wardell first appeared on jazzcollector.com.]]> One of the things I love about collecting jazz records is that there always seems to be something new to discover. Case in point: Last week I purchased that collection of mostly traditional jazz records, with a bunch of 10-inch LPs as well as some nice 78 boxed sets. I was going through some of the records this evening and came upon this 10-incher: Gene Norman Presents Just Jazz Featuring Les Thompson and His Harmonica, RCAVictor 3102. Frankly, I had never heard of Les Thompson and I’m not a huge fan of jazz harmonica, although I can appreciate some of Toots Thielemans. When I looked closer at the record, however, I noticed some quite interesting sidemen, most particularly Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray. I had thought

I knew just about every record on which Dexter played, but obviously I did not. I’ve listened to one side of this and it’s pretty good, although I’m still waiting for a Dexter solo. This record looks to be from 1952. Anyone out there have any more insight/information? If you enlarge the picture on the site, you can clearly see the sidemen, which also includes Chico Hamilton and Conte Candoli.

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