ldr- Buck Clayton; t- Buck Clayton; ts- Budd Johnson; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- Keter Betts; d- Ken Carroll, Jr
Sunday (Chester Conn, Bennie Krueger, Ned Miller, Jule Styne)
I Get A Kick Out Of You (Cole Porter)
Ya Ya ( Unknown)
Private audio tape recording from a TV production. The event was performed at Franklin & Marshall Commercial College.
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; p- Sir Charles Thompson
Black Blues - 03:44 (Sir Charles Thompson)
Tunis In (aka Tune Us In) - 03:27 (Sir Charles Thompson)
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- Major Holley; d- Ed Thigpen
Hey There - 04:29 (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross)
Poor Butterfly (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell)
Strange Hour - 04:14 (Sir Charles Thompson)
Bernie's Tune - 05:11 (Jerry Lieber, Bernie Miller, Mike Stoller)
Bop This - 02:58 (Sir Charles Thompson)
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You (Andy Razaf, Don Redman)
Almost Like Being In Love - 02:55 (Alan Lerner, Frederick Loewe)
Something (George Harrison)
Shiny Stockings (Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Foster)
Slow Blues In C ( Unknown)
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- Major Holley; d- Ed Thigpen
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You - 05:14 (Andy Razaf, Don Redman)
Russian Lullaby - 04:54 (Irving Berlin)
Poor Butterfly - 04:52 (John Golden, Raymond Hubbell)
Stolen Sweets - 04:04 (Wild Bill Davis, Sir Charles Thompson)
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- Major Holley; d- Ed Thigpen
Blues For Bonte - 04:55 (Sir Charles Thompson)
Robbins' Nest - 04:45 (Illinois Baptiste Jacquet, Sir Charles Thompson)
Everybody Blues - 05:24 (Sir Charles Thompson)
Everybody Blues - 05:24 (Sir Charles Thompson)
It is not known for certain that the Robbins' Nest track was performed at this session.
ldr- Carrie Smith; t- Doc Cheatham; tb- Vic Dickenson; as- Eddie Barefield; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- George Duvivier; d- Dave "Panama" Francis; v- Carrie Smith
Don't Be That Way (Benny Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson)
Please Send Me Someone To Love (Percy Mayfield)
Give Your Mama One Smile (Bill (Wm Lee Conley) Broonzy)
I Cried For You (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lymen)
All Of Me (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons)
'Deed I Do - 02:30 (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose)
Careless Love - 05:20 (W. C. Handy, Spencer Williams)
Everybody Loves My Baby (Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams)
Careless Love (W. C. Handy, Spencer Williams)
Everybody Loves My Baby - 04:12 (Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams)
Do Your Duty (Wesley "Sox" Wilson)
'Deed I Do (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose)
Do Your Duty - 02:50 (Wesley "Sox" Wilson)
ldr- Vic Dickenson; t- Doc Cheatham; tb- Vic Dickenson; cl- Eddie Barefield; ts- Eddie Barefield; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- George Duvivier; d- Dave "Panama" Francis
When My Dreamboat Comes Home - 05:36 (Dave Franklin, Cliff Friend)
Arkansas Blues - 06:26 (Anton Lada, Spencer Williams)
After You've Gone - 08:58 (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton)
Coquette - 07:24 (Johnny Green, Gus Kahn, Carmen Lombardo)
I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling - 04:05 (Harry Link, Billy Rose, Thomas "Fats" Waller)
West End Blues - 06:23 (Joseph "King" Oliver, Clarence Williams)
Swing That Music - 05:25 (Louis Armstrong, Horace Gerlach)
ldr- Roy (Crimmons) King; t- Rene Reichner; tb- Roy (Crimmons) King; cl- Jurg Morgenthaler; ss- Igor Celko; as- Jurg Morgenthaler; bar- Igor Celko; p- Sir Charles Thompson; g- Edy Kieser; bj- Edy Kieser; b- Pavel Molnar; d- Hans Brunner; v- Roy (Crimmons) King, Rene Reichner, Sir Charles Thompson
Just Squeeze Me - 04:50 (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Lee Gaines)
Everybody Loves My Baby - 04:10 (Jack Palmer, Spencer Williams)
You're Lucky To Me - 05:50 (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf)
Struttin' With Some Barbecue - 04:30 (Lillian Hardin Armstrong, Don Raye)
You'll Cry Someday - 02:30 (Alex Walsh)
It Happened In Monterey - 02:50 (Billy Rose, Mabel Wayne)
Jeep's Blues - 04:00 (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Johnny Hodges)
Perdido - 04:10 (Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder, Juan Tizol)
Heebie Jeebies - 03:00 (Boyd Atkins)
Caldonia - 03:00 (Fleecy Moore)
Sir Charles' Blues - 04:40 (Sir Charles Thompson)
The session was recorded over two days, September 17 and 18, 1977.
ldr- Al Grey; a- Francois Guin, Andre Persiany; tb- Al Grey; p- Andre Persiany; elo- Sir Charles Thompson; b- Roland Lobligeois; d- Sam Woodyard
Good Feeling - 02:46 (Albert Thornton "Al" Grey)
Ain't Miss Cheatin' - 04:10 (Albert Thornton "Al" Grey)
Al's Mist - 03:20 (Albert Thornton "Al" Grey)
It's You - 04:18 (Albert Thornton "Al" Grey)
I Left My Heart In San Francisco - 03:38 (George Cory, Douglass Cross)
Together Again - 05:02 (Neal Hefti)
Little Tears - 04:06 ( Unknown)
Doreen's Dreams - 03:48 (Albert Thornton "Al" Grey)
What Kind Of Fool Am I - 02:36 (Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley)
Assekrem - 03:00 ( Unknown)
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; elo- Sir Charles Thompson; d- Sam Woodyard
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen - 06:03 ( Traditional)
Rockin' Chair - 04:04 (Hoagy Carmichael)
Darn That Dream - 04:24 (Edgar DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen)
Georgia On My Mind - 05:15 (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell)
On The Sunny Side Of The Street - 05:18 (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh)
Stella By Starlight - 05:34 (Ned Washington, Victor Popular Young)
There Will Never Be Another You - 04:28 (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren)
You Can Depend On Me - 03:23 (Charlie Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Kenneth "Fatha" Hines)
ldr- Illinois Jacquet; ts- Illinois Jacquet; p- Hank Jones; elo- Sir Charles Thompson; b- George Duvivier; d- J.C. Heard
All Too Soon - 06:10 (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Carl Sigman)
If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) - 02:52 (Henry Creamer, James P. Johnson)
Love Is Here To Stay - 05:33 (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
Danny Boy - 05:31 ( Traditional)
Easy Living - 05:29 (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)
I Got It Bad - 05:26 (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Paul Francis Webster)
Someone To Watch Over Me - 05:22 (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
Lil' Darlin' - 04:34 (Neal Hefti)
Thompson's parts for all of the songs in this session were overdubbed in July 1978 (exact date not known). He was not present at the March 27 session.
ldr- Jean Bonal; elo- Sir Charles Thompson; g- Jean Bonal; d- Ronnie Coles
Love For Sale (Cole Porter)
Melancholy (Marty Bloom, Walter Melrose)
Angoustia ( Unknown)
Phanphan ( Unknown)
Chouraki ( Unknown)
Just Friends (John Klenner, Samuel M. Lewis)
Just Friends (John Klenner, Samuel M. Lewis)
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; elo- Sir Charles Thompson; d- Ronnie Coles
Just Friends - 03:35 (John Klenner, Samuel M. Lewis)
All Of Me - 03:55 (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons)
You Don't Know What Love Is - 07:36 (Gene DePaul, Don Raye)
These Foolish Things - 04:37 (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey)
I Cried For You - 04:41 (Gus Arnheim, Arthur Freed, Abe Lymen)
You Go To My Head - 06:29 (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)
Basin Street Blues - 04:33 (Spencer Williams)
What's New - 04:31 (Johnny Burke, Robert (Bob) Haggart)
I Got Rhythm - 04:49 (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
Time On My Hands - 05:15 (Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Vincent Youmans)
ldr- Erskine Hawkins; t- Erskine Hawkins; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- Jack Feldman; d- Duffy Jackson
Take The "A" Train (William Thomas Strayhorn)
On A Clear Day (You Can See Forever) (Burton Lane, Alan Lerner)
Tenderly (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence)
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid (Lester Willis Young)
Satin Doll (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Johnny Mercer, William Thomas Strayhorn)
Sugar Blues (Lucy Fletcher, Clarence Williams)
Sir Charles was invited to sit in on the last day of the festival.
t- Ruby Braff; tb- Vic Dickenson; p- Sir Charles Thompson; g- Jimmy Raney; b- Major Holley; d- Oliver Jackson
Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now (Andy Razaf, Thomas "Fats" Waller)
Jeepers Creepers (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren)
I Cover The Waterfront (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman)
Crazy Rhythm (Irving Caesar, Roger Wolfe Kahn, Joseph Meyer)
Old Fashioned Love (James P. Johnson, Cecil Mack)
Lady Be Good (George Gershwin)
The performances from this date were made at the Nice Jazz Festival.
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; p- Sir Charles Thompson
Easy Living - 03:28 (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)
Robbins' Nest - 04:00 (Illinois Baptiste Jacquet, Sir Charles Thompson)
Memories Of You - 04:36 (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf)
Ain't Misbehavin' - 04:50 (Harry Brooks, Andy Razaf, Thomas "Fats" Waller)
'Round Midnight - 04:50 (Bernard D. "Bernie" Hanighen, Thelonious Monk, Cootie (Charles) Williams)
Happy Boogie - 02:53 (Sir Charles Thompson)
Portrait Of A Piano - 04:46 (Bill Butler)
You Go To My Head - 05:50 (J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie)
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most - 05:56 (Frances Landesman, Thomas J. Wolf, Jr.)
All The Things You Are - 05:30 (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)
Samo Blues - 03:30 (Sir Charles Thompson)
t- Humphrey Lyttelton; tb- Roy Williams; as- Peter King; ts- Dick Morrissey; bar- John Barnes; p- Brian Lemon, Sir Charles Thompson; g- Martin Taylor; b- Dave Green; d- Allan Ganley
Time's A Wastin' - 18:35 (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Mercer Ellington, Don George)
Jumpin' At The Woodside - 10:15 (William "Count" Basie)
Recorded at the Grand Hotel's Grosvenor Suite, Birmingham, England.
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; ts- Herbie Steward; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- David Young; d- Yukio Kimura
Love For Sale - 07:55 (Cole Porter)
Stella By Starlight - 08:43 (Ned Washington, Victor Popular Young)
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise - 09:17 (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg)
Tunis In (aka Tune Us In) - 06:57 (Sir Charles Thompson)
My One And Only Love - 08:56 (Robert Mellin, Guy B. Wood)
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid - 07:35 (Lester Willis Young)
Introduction - 00:40
Stompin' At The Savoy - 09:18 (Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb)
I Surrender, Dear - 10:16 (Harry Barris, Gordon Clifford)
In A Mellow Tone - 11:17 (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Milt Gabler)
Body And Soul - 09:35 (John W. "Johnny" Green, Edward Heyman, Robert B. Sour)
How High The Moon - 06:14 (Nancy Hamilton, William Morgan Lewis)
Robbins' Nest - 07:31 (Illinois Baptiste Jacquet, Sir Charles Thompson)
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- Kohji Tohyama; d- Yukio Kimura
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise - 07:45 (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg)
What's New - 04:52 (Johnny Burke, Robert (Bob) Haggart)
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen - 06:18 (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin, Jacob Jacobs, Sholom Secunda)
My One And Only Love - 05:35 (Robert Mellin, Guy B. Wood)
Robbins' Nest - 07:29 (Illinois Baptiste Jacquet, Sir Charles Thompson)
Lullaby Of The Leaves - 05:19 (Bernice Petkere, Joseph Young)
For The Ears - 04:59 (Sir Charles Thompson)
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- Lisle Atkinson, Eddie Jones; d- Eddie Locke; v- Sir Charles Thompson
St. Louis Blues - 05:45 (W. C. Handy)
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You - 05:55 (George Bassman, Ned Washington)
Love Me Tender - 03:47 (Vera Matson, Elvis Presley)
Boogie Woogie - 02:21 (Sir Charles Thompson)
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You - 03:04 (Andy Razaf, Don Redman)
How High The Moon - 04:00 (Nancy Hamilton, William Morgan Lewis)
Tunis In (aka Tune Us In) - 03:53 (Sir Charles Thompson)
Groovin' High - 04:44 (John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie)
Robbins' Nest - 05:01 (Illinois Baptiste Jacquet, Sir Charles Thompson)
You Don't Know What Love Is - 05:51 (Gene DePaul, Don Raye)
Solitude - 04:22 (Edgar DeLange, Edward Kennedy Ellington, Irving Mills)
For The Ears - 05:53 (Sir Charles Thompson)
I Love My Baby - 04:23 (Sir Charles Thompson)
After Hours - 06:33 (Avery Parrish)
Centerpiece - 04:52 (Harry "Sweets" Edison, Jon Hendricks, Bill Tennyson)
My One And Only Love - 03:39 (Robert Mellin, Guy B. Wood)
Corner Pocket - 04:40 (Freddie Green, Donald Wolf)
Autumn Leaves - 04:13 (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prevert)
Tickle Toe - 03:18 (Lester Willis Young)
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; as- Seiji Tada; p- Sir Charles Thompson
Stardust - 04:07 (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)
Georgia On My Mind - 04:28 (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell)
ldr- Yoshimasa Kasai, Sir Charles Thompson; t- Taku Shimoda; c- Masanobu Ikeda; cl- Yoshimasa Kasai; ss- Yoshimasa Kasai; p- Hiromi Okabe, Sir Charles Thompson; b- Teruhiko Ono; d- Kazunori Kondo; v- Sir Charles Thompson
Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans - 03:25 (Louis Alter, Edgar DeLange)
St. Louis Blues - 07:10 (W. C. Handy)
What Is There To Say - 03:36 (Vernon Duke, E. Y. "Yip" Harburg)
Stella By Starlight - 05:54 (Ned Washington, Victor Popular Young)
Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You - 02:36 (Andy Razaf, Don Redman)
Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now - 03:26 (Andy Razaf, Thomas "Fats" Waller)
Memories Of You - 03:35 (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf)
Love Is Here To Stay - 04:21 (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
Honeysuckle Rose - 05:07 (Andy Razaf, Thomas "Fats" Waller)
Take The "A" Train - 05:13 (William Thomas Strayhorn)
Love Me Tender - 02:24 (Vera Matson, Elvis Presley)
Robbins' Nest - 06:14 (Illinois Baptiste Jacquet, Sir Charles Thompson)
It Don't Mean A Thing - 04:31 (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Irving Mills)
Back Home Again In Indiana - 06:48 (James Hanley, Ballard MacDonald)
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; t- Yoshio Toyama; tb- Tadanori Konakawa; cl- Makio Shimizu, Koji Suzuki; as- Koji Suzuki; ts- Nobuo Tanabe; p- Sir Charles Thompson; g- Keiko Toyama; b- Junichi Furusato; d- Bison Katayama, Isamu Yamamoto
When You And I Were Young, Maggie - 05:30 (Harold G. Frost, Jack Frost, Jimmy McHugh)
Russian Lullaby - 04:19 (Irving Berlin)
Nice Work If You Can Get It - 04:54 (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
Runnin' Wild - 04:06 (Arthur H. Gibbs, Joseph W. Grey, Beda Fritz Loehner, Leo Wood)
These Foolish Things - 04:01 (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey)
The King - 04:15 (William "Count" Basie)
Body And Soul - 03:45 (John W. "Johnny" Green, Edward Heyman, Robert B. Sour)
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To - 04:26 (Cole Porter)
In A Sentimental Mood - 04:00 (Edward Kennedy Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills)
Ready For Freddie - 04:02 (Sir Charles Thompson)
Jumpin' The Blues - 04:22 (Walter Brown, Jay McShann, Charles C. "Charlie" Parker)
Tickle Toe - 04:23 (Lester Willis Young)
One O'Clock Jump - 06:47 (William "Count" Basie, Ed Durham)
Memories Of You - 03:51 (Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf)
The performances for this session were conducted on June 27, 1997 and July 7, 1997.
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; t- Art Hoyle; cl- Eric Schneider; as- Eric Schneider; ts- Eric Schneider; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- Ed De Haas; d- Charles Braugham
Robbins' Nest - 04:07 (Illinois Baptiste Jacquet, Sir Charles Thompson)
'S Wonderful - 05:43 (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
Tunis In (aka Tune Us In) - 07:22 (Sir Charles Thompson)
You Don't Know What Love Is - 05:11 (Gene DePaul, Don Raye)
Body And Soul - 05:28 (John W. "Johnny" Green, Edward Heyman, Robert B. Sour)
A Boogie Woogie - 03:58 ( Traditional)
Stuffy - 06:53 (Coleman Randolph Hawkins)
Easy Living - 06:01 (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin)
The King - 05:13 (William "Count" Basie)
Blue And Sentimental - 04:56 (William "Count" Basie, Mack David, Jerry Livingston)
I Never Knew - 05:06 (Ted Fiorito, Gus Kahn)
Goodbye - 04:05 (Gordon Jenkins)
Recorded live at the Jazz Showcase, Chicago, on August 3 and 4, 2000.
ldr- Sir Charles Thompson; cl- Eric Schneider; as- Eric Schneider; ts- Eric Schneider; p- Sir Charles Thompson; b- Ed De Haas; d- Charles Braugham
I Got Rhythm - 03:22 (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)
Autumn Leaves - 07:13 (Joseph Kosma, Johnny Mercer, Jacques Prevert)
All The Things You Are - 09:07 (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern)
Three Little Words - 04:07 (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby)
I Want A Little Girl - 06:05 (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll)
Just You, Just Me - 04:19 (Jesse Greer, Raymond W. Klages)
Stardust - 06:07 (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)
If I Had You - 05:26 (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Ted Shapiro)
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid - 04:47 (Lester Willis Young)
What's New - 07:10 (Johnny Burke, Robert (Bob) Haggart)
Sometimes I'm Happy - 05:00 (Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey, King Pleasure, Vincent Youmans)
Second Balcony Jump - 05:48 (Gerry Valentine)
Recorded on May 5 and 6, 2001.