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Many famous drummers have realized their dream gig, crafted a career, and enjoyed a piece of the spotlight. They should all be celebrated accordingly. In putting together a dream gig list, many might list artists like Santana, Frank Zappa, Weather Report, or even Genesis. Only the great Chester Thompson can claim all these dream gigs, doing so with an extremely modest and humble character. Whether navigating the statistically dense Zappa rhythms, driving Weather Report’s world-jazz-fusion, or performing those iconic drum duets alongside Phil Collins during his decades-long tenure with Genesis, Chester Thompson is a universally revered elder stateman of drumming. Since the late 1990s, Thompson has also been highly regarded as an educator, teaching at Nashville’s world-renowned music school Belmont University and appearing regularly at the Nashville Jazz Workshop.
“You know, it all comes back to the sound,” states Thompson. “Business is an important part of everything we do as musicians, but this sound never left my head or my heart, and I was back home at the first stroke of the stick.”
Chester Thompson is widely respected for combining jazz sophistication, rock power, fusion improvisation and high level precise live performance discipline. The unmistakable SONOR sound has long been part of his journey and together the pursuit of dream gig level music continues.
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