Sir Charles Thompson



         


Charles Phillip Thompson (born 1918), who recorded and performed as Sir Charles Thompson, is an American swing and bebop pianist, organist and arranger. Thompson composed the jazz standard "Robbins' Nest." He has chiefly worked with small groups, although he belonged to the Coleman Hawkins/Howard McGhee band in 1944-1945.


Charles Michael Kitridge Thompson IV was ex-Pixies member musician Frank Black's birthname.





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