Jazz
singer Jo Thompson, who broke racial barriers, dies of COVID-19
complications
Orandar Brand-Williams
The Detroit News
Mar. 10, 2021
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Jo
Thompson was described once as the "piano-playing
Lena Horne." A jazz artist, Ms. Thompson performed
well into her 80s, building upon a decades-long career
punctuated by performances at some of the country and
the world's most illustrious cabarets and nightclubs.
From New York City's
legendary Tavern On the Green to venues around the world,
Ms. Thompson broke racial barriers during the decades
she played the piano and sang to audiences from Detroit's
top supper clubs to ones in Cuba, New York, London and
Paris during the 1950s. |
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Ms.
Thompson, a Detroit native and longtime resident, died
Tuesday, March 9, 2021, from COVID-19 complications in
Montclair, New Jersey. She was 92.
Ms. Thompson's
brother, Dr. Walter Thompson, died of COVID-19 three
months before his sister.
Born in Detroit, Ms.
Thompson began her entertainment career at Detroit's
Northwestern High School. A classmate suggested that
she sing and play piano in an amateur talent competition
and her career took off from there, said her son Greg
Dunmore, a Detroit-based journalist
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デトロイトのジョー・トンプソンがコロナに感染し３月９日に亡くなりました。９２歳でした。
2003年にB
fratでライブがあり、杉谷さんから呼ばれて聴きに行ってきました。当時、大阪にいたハービー・トンプソンとのダブル・トンプソン・ライブでした。１時間ずつの２セットでしたが、中身の濃いライブで楽しい思い出となりました。
ジョー・トンプソンの息子はGreg
Dunmoreといい、デトロイトのOn Line TVでJazz関連のニュースを流しています。ハービーは同じデトロイト出身の歌手でダンモアと親しいのです。
それで、JoとHarveyを組み合わせたデトロイト・ライブが開催されたのです。R.I.P.
⇒ デトロイトのOn
Line TV
（2021/3/14）
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