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Chester Thompson Quartet at Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Courtesy of Bennett Jackson | Posted on August 7, 2019

Where

Kuumbwa Jazz Center
320-2 Cedar Street
Santa Cruz, CA
Map
831-427-2227

When

Mon, December 9, 2019
7:00 pm

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Musicians

Chester Thompson
organ, Hammond B3

About

Oklahoma-born organist Chester Thompson started playing at the age of five and has gone on to lead a career including a lengthy stint with Tower of Power, seventeen years with Santana and co-writing credits with both bands. His contributions have always proved integral to the groups he’s shared the stage with and he now brings his trademark sound to the stage with his own group. His quartet interacts with a paramount devotion to improvising in the moment and provides a return to Thompson’s jazz roots. Joining Thompson in the quartet are guitarist Drew Zingg, tenor saxophonist Howard Wiley, and drummer Darrell Green....

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