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Chester Thompson
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Person · Male · drummer · jazz musician · musician

Chester Thompson

Chester C. Thompson · Chester Cortez Thompson
Born 11 Dec 1948United States9 albums

American drummer

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Biography

Chester Thompson (born December 11, 1948) is an American drummer best known for his tenures with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Weather Report, Santana, Genesis, and Phil Collins. Thompson has performed with his jazz group, the Chester Thompson Trio, since 2011.

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People

Member of

Santana1984–1984Air PocketCosmic CathedralFire Merchantsdrums (drum set)

Songs written

  1. Drum Duetcomposer1986 · 98 releases
  2. Conversations With 2 Stoolscomposer2007 · 51 releases
  3. Time to Flycomposer2025 · 7 releases
  4. The Drum Thingwriter2001 · 6 releases
  5. Walking in Daylightcomposer2025 · 6 releases
  6. Deep Water Suitecomposer

Songs recorded

  1. A Joyful Noise3 versions
  2. Follow You, Follow Me3 versions
  3. Black Market2 versions
  4. Cool Groove2 versions
  5. Horn Of Plenty2 versions
  6. How Deep Is The Ocean2 versions
  7. New Life2 versions
  8. Partido Alto2 versions
  9. Simpler Times2 versions
  10. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top2 versions
  11. A Remark You Made
  12. Addatude
  13. Amari
  14. Amazing grace
  15. Attitude
  16. Bag a Bones
  17. Bass (interlude)
  18. Better Get It in Your Soul
  19. Better Git It in Your Soul
  20. Big Wheel
  21. Black Satin
  22. Chunky
  23. Conflagration
  24. Desafinado
  25. Drum (interlude)
  26. Drums are loud
  27. Elation
  28. Emmanuel
  29. Feel It
  30. Greetings
  31. Guitar (interlude)
  32. Hide and Seek
  33. Homeland
  34. I'm Old Fashioned
  35. IFE
  36. In a Silent Way
  37. Interlude 1 (Tribal)
  38. Interlude 2 (Celebrate)
  39. Interlude 3 (Beast)
  40. Interlude 4 (Swang)
  41. Interlude 5 (Strut)
  42. Inversion
  43. I’m Old Fashioned
  44. Jean Pierre
  45. Joy Waltz
  46. Joy! Joy! Joy!
  47. Jussa Thang
  48. Lieb Talks About Miles
  49. Mango Mongo
  50. Memphis to K.C.
  51. Mi Mia
  52. Mine
  53. Mojo
  54. Moonchild
  55. Morning
  56. My Beautiful Rae
  57. Naima
  58. On the Corner
  59. Particle Accelerations
  60. Raw
  61. Reflection
  62. Save Your Love for Me
  63. Selim
  64. Serenity
  65. Single Source
  66. Smack 'em
  67. So in Love
  68. So-soka
  69. Sometime Soon
  70. Steppin'
  71. Straight No Chaser
  72. Sunrise
  73. The New Four
  74. Tropical sunday
  75. Wake Up Call
  76. Wili (For Dave)
  77. Windows
  78. Yardbird Suite
  79. You Are Sid
  80. You and Me

Albums

I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 93
I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 93Johnny Lytle / Albert Dailey / Chester Thompson · 1982
A joyful noise
A joyful noiseChester Thompson · 1999
Approved
ApprovedChester Thompson · 2013
Simpler Times
Simpler TimesChester Thompson Trio · 2015
Live at Drums ’n’ Percussion Paderborn
Live at Drums ’n’ Percussion PaderbornChester Thompson · 2017
On the Corner Live!
On the Corner Live!David Liebman, Jeff Coffin, Victor Wooten, Chester Thompson, Chris Walters, James Dasilva · 2019
Steppin
SteppinChester Thompson · 2019
Wake Up Call
Wake Up CallChester Thompson · 2023
Moonchild
MoonchildJoe Lynn Turner, Jah Wobble, Chester Thompson & Marty Friedman · 2024

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