Goodbye Ed Thigpen.

The sad news has just come through that Ed Thigpen, for many years drummer with the Oscar Peterson Trio, died on Jan 13 in Copenhagen.

I think Ed was possibly Oscar's first regular trio drummer - prior to this he usually worked with bass and guitar.

I remember seeing them several times at Newcastle City Hall and Ed was perhaps the perfect small group drummer - never overpowering but always there to go wherever Peterson's improvisations took him (and vice versa). I also heard him with Ella.

Ed died age 79.

RIP.

Lance.

Link to website.