>♪< Precious photo of a little 2 year old blues jazz angel fan of my bio dad RIP 6/16/16 Sir Charles Thompson posing for her Delmark Records executive dad who was inspired to share this with me.
HERE are the details about the CD she is holding...
This live CD. Includes a wonderful rendition of Thompson's graceful composition "Robbins' Nest", still one of the most played tunes of that era
HERE are the details about the CD she is holding...
This live CD. Includes a wonderful rendition of Thompson's graceful composition "Robbins' Nest", still one of the most played tunes of that era
www.menagerieentertainment.com/tinas_biological_father_sir_charles_thompson
>♪< Sent by an Angel >♪<
Box of treasures belonging to my biological "father" jazz royalty icon Sir Charles Thompson including original typed Smithsonian Institute interview + contracts with Count Basie, BMI and authentic European jazz venues with names like "hot club de france" LoL + tapes from years of rehearsals, live gigs and personal conversations...PHOTOS and reveal of more contents to be continued...at www.MenagerieEntertainment.Com/Tinas_Biological_Father_Sir_Charles_Thompson
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Sunday June 16, 2012
VIEW 2010 VIDEO of Robbin's Nest by Sir Charles Phillip Thompson at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Jb2zMHJtc &;-) ♪♫ >♥< ♫ ♪
Fathers Day Sonday Love & BlesSINGs *!* I never knew my earthly father or even who he was until just a few years ago someone discovered online communication about him from his international jazz fans. After finding his contact through the musicians union providing his HOLLYWOOD phone number resulting in an intriguing conversation revealing previously mysterious hereditary passion for ♫ MUSIC ♫ and spirituality including my professional singer mom and his generation's inability to combine both ...he said his current singer wife from Japan and his step daughter that he adopted would be devastated to know he has a real blood related daughter and 6 grandchildren he has never acknowledged since that is considered an extremely offensive disgrace in their Asian culture....so he requested no further contact. I believe the multigenerational curse of fatherlessness contributes to my life as a single mom of 6 father abandoned children since divorce 20 yrs ago with no extended family support. So I speak empathetically from a life time of personal experience with the missing father syndrome when I suggest to all who are fatherless in my world to compensate for this unfair theft by the joy robbing enemy of families by finding someone or many someones without a father to BE one to them today and beyond. It would be a fun, enlightening and fulfilling inspirational exploration to venture into the public to discover how many of all ages will be so easily detected who are obviously trying to ignore painful observance of others celebrating complete families throughout every community today. Psalm 68:4-6 "♫ SING to God ♫ SING praises to His name ♫ A father of the fatherless and a judge and protector of the widows is God in His holy habitation. God places the solitary in families and gives the desolate a home in which to dwell; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity" (I never noticed the "prisoners" verse before but now appreciate as an ironic God Wink reminder to also mention the youngest of my 3 father abandoned sons who just turned 24 is a resident of James Musick prison with a sentence of 15 more months... with many other father abandoned young men and women I also happen to know from my community entertainment activities for so long including within correctional facilities) James 1:26-27 "Real, true religion and worship that is pure and unblemished from God the Father’s perspective is this: to visit and help and care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and need" Another ironic God Wink is that 10 years ago this son now in prison was selected to be in the first commercial for www.JCTV.org speaking the featured script "God has a plan for your life" you can view at www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=462984961384 aka confirmation reminder that God is working on His plan for ANY and ALL of our messes and tests to become MESSages and TESTimonies "The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life in abundance to the full till it overflows. We are assured that God works ALL things work together into a plan for good to and for those who love Him and are called according to His design and purpose by His power that is at work within us able to carry out His purpose superabundantly far over and above all that we dare ask or think infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams. " John 10:10, Romans 8:28, Ephesians 3:20
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Thursday, June 14, 2012
"My Father's Secret Piano Garden" PART TWO
Sonday Love and Blessings, June 17, 2012
and included on the A list of jazz, rhythm and blues rock pioneers performing , composing and contributing arrangements since the age of 10 with Annisteen Allen, B. B. King, Barney Kessel, Ben Webster, Bennie Moten, Benny Goodman, Benny Green, Big Joe Turner, Big John Greer, Billie Holiday, Buck Clayton, Bull Moose Jackson, Charlie Dixon, Charlie Green, Charlie Parker "Bird", Coleman Hawkins, Cootie Williams, Count Basie/"Holy Man", Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Earle Warren, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Erroll Garner, Ethel Waters, Frank Sinatra, Freddie Green, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Irving Ashby, James P. Johnson, Herb Ellis, Herbie Hancock, Herschel Evans, J.C. Heard, Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmy Rushing, Jo Jones, Joe Williams, John Hammond, Keith Emerson, Lester Young, Lionel Hampton, Louis Armstrong, Lucky Millinder, Miles Davis,.Nat King Cole, Oran 'Hot Lips' Page, Oscar Peterson, Quincy Jones, Ray Brown, Roy Eldridge, Ruth Brown, Sarah Vaughan, Sam Jones, Snooky Young, Sonny Greer, Stan Getz, Tab Smith, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Tommy Dorsey,Vernon Page, Vic Dickenson, Walter Page, Wes Montgomery, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Woody Herman, Wynonie Harris... and even more by now as I am in the process of discovering. since he is "still performing and playing a mean game of golf " ...AT THE AGE OF 94 !!!
He was also honored with official musician royalty title by Sax/Clairinet Icon Lester "Prez" Young after performing for Queen Elizabeth II ♪♫^♥^♪♫
When I contacted him at his home in Hollywood, he said he was sorry that my (night club jazz singer) mom never informed him about my apparently secret unexpected miracle birth ...but in consideration of potential reaction from adopted family of his jazz singer wife from Japan 25 years ago ...he requested no further communication.
As I was ready to abide by his wishes and hang up "something" made me say one last thing for his consideration... "I don't know if you believe in God or not but if so maybe you could pray about it"
which resulted in him continuing the conversation to inform me that "as a matter of fact" he had intended on following the path of his dad ...and his dad by becoming a 3rd generation minister
but instead chose what he referred to as the opposite spectrum of life in the entertainment industry
Ironically my jazz singer mom chose to give up her life within "the brat pack" entertainment industry to become a minister
Even more ironic is how the results of every career + personality assessment I have ever taken just for fun
has always had the same two almost equally compatible recommendation for best choices of occupation...
Entertainment OR Social Service (includes ministry) lol
No wonder it seems like my entire life has accidentally by no conscience choice of my own
been quite an eclectic combination of BOTH even during those rare few seconds during those rare times in my life when I have almost tried to consider the advice of others suggesting that I should really focus on one or the other ...lol
"A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows,
is God in His Holy House" Psalm 68:5
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http://jazzlives.wordpress.com/tag/sir-charles-thompson/
- Dottie in her apartment: the crooked picture over her shoulder is one of Charles
My friend, jazz scholar Bill Gallagher, writes,
Dorothe “Dottie” Bigard was the wife and widow of Barney Bigard and a virtual encyclopedia of jazz personalities. I first came to know Dottie around 1990. Barney had passed away in 1980 and, at the time, she was a companion of Sir Charles Thompson.
Charles and I had been in close contact, as he and I were working on his discography (http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Thompson/index.html). Often, Dottie and I would chat a bit before Charles picked up the phone, and that is how our friendship began. Not long after, their relationship broke up (Charles had moved to Japan and married over there) but Dottie and I had, by that time, become good friends. We talked on the phone at least once a week and I would visit with her when I was in Southern California while on business trips. On those occasions she preferred to stay in, so we’d order in Chinese and sit around and talk for the evening.
Dottie’s relationship with Barney began shortly after the outbreak of World War II and so she first became part of the Ellington family and, later, with the Armstrong family when Barney joined Louis in 1947. I remember watching the Ken Burns JAZZ series and seeing a clip of Louis and Lucille entertaining in their home in Queens and there was Barney and Dottie sitting in the living room having a great time. She tossed off those experiences like they were just every day occurrences, like brushing your teeth, but to me it was hallowed ground. To my everlasting regret, I didn’t evoke more jazz anecdotes from her because she could have filled a book. More often, our conversations would just as likely be about news, weather and politics as it would be about jazz.
Dottie and Barney in Nice, France, 1977
She knew everyone associated with jazz, it seemed. There wasn’t a single name that I could throw her way that she didn’t have some experience to share. Once, I mentioned that I had just picked up a CD featuring Albert Nicholas and she went on to say that he and Barney used to room together when they lived in Chicago and Barney was playing with Joe Oliver. However the friendship and the living arrangement broke up when they both started dating the same girl. “Is there anyone you don’t know?” I’d ask her, and she would just laugh.
Dottie’s manner was casual and friendly and there was a certain rough charm about her that, perhaps, came from her Wyoming origins. Whatever her exterior, she had a heart of gold and a love of all things jazz. I recall her telling me that when she first met Barney, she really didn’t connect him with Ellington – she was a Goodman fan. But all that changed and later when she would attend gatherings of the Ellington Society, she was treated like royalty.
A social call from Kenny Davern
In August 2000, my wife and I were driving home from a few days in Carmel and she was checking our phone messages. There was a call from Floyd Levin telling me that Dottie had suffered a fatal heart attack. She was 82, but in my mind we were contemporaries, and I knew that I would probably never get to know anyone like her again. They say that after God made certain people, He threw the mold away. It couldn’t have been more true in the case of Dottie Bigard.
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