Charles Thompson

Pianist Charles Thompson shouldn’t be confused using the later on jazz keyboard musician from the same name whose billing often received a regal contact, Sir Charles Thompson. The sooner Thompson was furthermore a prolific composer aswell as performer, predating his knighted namesake stylistically aswell as historically. The author of pieces like the fragrant “Lily Rag,” Thompson was the ragtime champ of Missouri over the last years from the 19th hundred years. A lot of Thompson’s body of function was not in fact released until as past due as 1914, where period the composer acquired put in a long time delivering these ragtime functions while in his competitive position being a concert performer. Documenting sessions designed for the Euphonic label aswell as some amazing real house-party tapings are among the records of this outstanding pianist; critical evaluations have been designed to the better-known Eubie Blake.