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Description: The Copenhagen-based drummer presents a Scandinavian flavoured bebop and modern jazz spectacular.
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Influential: without appearing to dominate, Ed Thigpen gave the group a core of absolute rhythmic rightness that filtered around the bandstand
Stunt Records week in Soho involves the cream of Scandinavian jazz talent, with many new faces in town and, at the drum kit last night, one venerably familiar one.
Ed Thigpen was the cornerstone of the Oscar Peterson trio before he settled in Copenhagen 34 years ago, and his effect on local players has been considerable.
His Swedish front line, trumpeter Anders Bercrantz and tenorist Tomas Franck, and his Danish rhythm partners, pianist Kasper Villaume and bassist Jesper Bolidsen, grooved soulfully and seamlessly together in a vintage early-Sixties Blue Note style.
The soloists' major influences were happily obvious. Bercrantz played prime Freddie Hubbard with bluesy half-valving touches of Lee Morgan.
Franck played early Coltrane with touches of Dexter Gordon's eloquence, especially on his ballad feature, Old Folks.
Boldilsen was prime Ray Brown and Villaume was early Wynton Kelly. And Thigpen, without appearing to dominate, gave the group a core of absolute rhythmic rightness that filtered around the bandstand like a kind of jazzmosis.
"My father showed me how to play drums," he recalled recently. "He could nail the tempo so it stayed where it was supposed to be." Quite. And like father, like son.
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