Skip to content
Loading Events

« All Events

  • This event has passed.

TJ Thompson Trio

July 9, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Playing the Soul, Blues & Jazz of New Orleans, Memphis and more… The T.J. Thompson Trio has been active since 2014 performing in various clubs and pits in musical theaters throughout Connecticut. Winner of the IMEA Jazz Artist of the Year for their recent album Take Two: The Sound of Playing, this group plays a combination of originals along with the Soul, Blues, and Jazz of New Orleans, Memphis, and beyond. We cover everything from Jelly Roll Morton, Professor Longhair, Thelonious Monk, Booker T and the MG’s, Jimi Hendrix, The Dead, and more. Leader T.J. Thompson performed with Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and as a result was a featured artist on Branford Marsalis’ Jazz Set show on NPR. In 1998 he recorded and produced Thompson Trio Take One, an album consisting mostly of original works, which received good reviews from Goldmine and Cadence magazines. A student of both Henry Butler and George Cables, he has opened for and worked with such artists as Henry Butler, Mel Torme, Ed Thigpen, Dave Liebman, and Koko Taylor as well as being a featured soloist on the Morgan Powell Jazz Album. He taught at St. Johnsbury Academy and Johnson State College in Vermont from 1997-2000 and since has been the Director of Instrumental Music at the Taft School, in Watertown, Connecticut, where he resides with his wife, two daughters, and 3 cats.

Details

Date:
July 9, 2022
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Organizer

JCC in Sherman
Phone
(860) 355-8050
View Organizer Website

Venue

JCC in Sherman
9 Route 39 South
Sherman, CT
+ Google Map
Phone
(860) 355-8050
View Venue Website
Skip to content