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Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English double bass player. He has had a long musical career playing with a large variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson (no relation) and John Martyn, but including many others: at various times has for example played with Roy Orbison, Freddie and the Dreamers, Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Scott, Tom Paxton, Donovan and Kate Bush. For five years, he was a member of Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated, and he was a founding member of the British folk rock band Pentangle. Since 1987, he has also recorded four solo albums. He converted to the Muslim faith in 1990.^{[citation needed]} Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Side and front views of a modern double bass with a French bow. ... For other persons named Richard Thompson, see Richard Thompson (disambiguation). ... John Martyn (born Iain David McGeachy on September 11, 1948 in New Malden, Surrey, England) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988), nicknamed The Big O, was an influential Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades. ... Freddie and the Dreamers were a British musical band who had a number of hit records between May 1963 and November 1965. ... Edward Tubby Hayes (1935-1973} was a British jazz tenor saxophone player. ... Ronnie Scott (left) with Tubby Hayes. ... Thomas R. Paxton was born October 31, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest child of Burton and Esther Paxton. ... For other uses, see Donovan (disambiguation). ... Kate Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. ... Alexis Korner (born Alexis Andrew Nicholas Korner, 19 April 1928 in Paris, France - died on 1 January 1984 in Westminster, London, England) Korner is probably best remembered as the Founding Father of British Blues and a pioneering blues musician. ... Bob Dylans folk-rock album, Blonde on Blonde Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. ... Pentangle is a British folk-rock band. ... There is also a collection of Hadith called Sahih Muslim A Muslim (Arabic: مسلم, Persian: Mosalman or Mosalmon Urdu: مسلمان, Turkish: Müslüman, Albanian: Mysliman, Bosnian: Musliman) is an adherent of the religion of Islam. ...

Biography and career

Danny Thompson was born in Teignmouth, Devon, in 1939. His father, a miner, joined the Royal Navy at the start of World War II and was lost in action whilst crewing submarines. When Thompson was aged 6, the family moved to London and he was brought up in the working-class area of Battersea. At school he excelled at football and played as a junior for Chelsea, the team he has supported ever since. Whilst at school he learnt guitar, mandolin, trumpet and trombone before settling on the double bass as his instrument of choice. , Teignmouth (IPA: ) is a town on the north bank of the estuary mouth of the River Teign in south Devon, England. ... Part of the seafront of Torquay, south Devon, at high tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordered by Cornwall to the west, and Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Battersea is a place in the London Borough of Wandsworth. ... A player (wearing the red kit) has penetrated the defence (in the white kit) and is taking a shot at goal. ... Chelsea Football Club (also known as The Blues or previously The Pensioners) are an English professional football club based in west London. ...

Stylistically he favours jazz. His improvisatory style is very distinctive and can usually be identified at first hearing. He routinely creates growling twangs as well as high-register figures that complement the music. He is noted for his extensive use of the bow, especially to create eerie high-pitched notes as well as thundering bass backgrounds. For other uses, see Jazz (disambiguation). ...

While he has his own album releases, his highest profile recordings are currently with Richard Thompson e.g. Mirror Blue, The Old Kit Bag, and the concert DVD release Richard Thompson Live in Austin Texas, from the Austin City Limits series. For other persons named Richard Thompson, see Richard Thompson (disambiguation). ... Stevie Ray Vaughan performing on Austin City Limits. ...

Like many musicians, Danny Thompson's life has featured brushes with substance abuse. During his partnership with John Martyn, their drinking and the excessive behaviour it spawned became the stuff of legend. In one incident related by Martyn, he woke up after passing out on a hotel room floor, to find himself under a rug which Thompson had nailed down, leaving only Martyn's head exposed. Thompson went about his business, eating breakfast etc., ignoring Martyn's pleas to let him loose. An excellent biography of Thompson was written by John Hillarby. John Martyn (born Iain David McGeachy on September 11, 1948 in New Malden, Surrey, England) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...

Danny received a Lifetime achievement award in the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

"Victoria"

Danny Thompson's initial experience of bass playing was with a Skiffle group, with whom he played a tea chest bass (a bass he built himself out of a tea chest, which folded up so he could carry it). In the early 1960s he bought a second-hand double bass from an old man in Battersea who let him have the instrument for £5 (despite the fact that it was worth much more than that), on the basis of his keenness to play it. He christened the instrument "Victoria" and it has remained his instrument of choice ever since. The bass was built by the Gand, a French luthier, in 1865.

In the early part of the 1980s he worked closely with documentary film-maker, Roy Deverell and composed music for two of his award-winning films about John Aspinall's pioneering work with endangered mammals.

Partial discography

Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated

• Red Hot From Alex (1964)
• Sky High (1966)
• Blues Incorporated (1967 - re-issue of "Sky High")
• I Wonder Who (1967)
• A New Generation of Blues (1968)

Blues Incorporated was a British R&B band in the early 1960s, which was led by Alexis Korner and which featured at various times such musicians as Jack Bruce, Charlie Watts, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Danny Thompson, Graham Bond, Cyril Davies, and Dick Heckstall-Smith. ...

Pentangle

• The Pentangle (1968)
• Sweet Child (1968)
• Basket of Light (1969)
• Cruel Sister (1970)
• Reflection (1971)
• Solomon's Seal (1972)

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Danny Thompson

• Whatever (1987)
• Whatever Next (1989)
• Elemental (1990)
• Whatever’s Best (1995)
• Danny Thompson & Peter Knight (1995)

Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson

• Live At Crawley (1995)
• Industry (1997)

Richard Thompson is a widely bootlegged artist. ...

Others

Danny Thompson has played on dozens of albums during his career. The following is only a small selection.

• The Blind Boys of Alabama: Spirit of the Century (2001)
• Kate Bush: The Dreaming (1982); Hounds Of Love (1985)
• Christine Collister: The Dark Gift Of Time (1998); An Equal Love (2001)
• Barbara Dickson: Don’t Think Twice (1992); Dark End Of The Street (1995)
• Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left (1969)
• Marvin Etzioni: Marvin The Mandolin Man (1992)
• Everything But The Girl: Amplified Heart (1994)
• Marianne Faithfull: North Country Maid (1966); The World Of Marianne Faithful (1970)
• Davey Graham: Folk Blues & Beyond (1965); Large As Life & Twice As Natural (1968); Hat (1969); Fire In The Soul (1999)
• Boo Hewerdine: Baptist Hospital (1995)
• Ketama and Toumani Diabate Songhai (1988); Songhai 2 (1994)
• The Incredible String Band: The 5000 Spirits (1967); Hard Rope & Silken Twine (1973)
• Bert Jansch: Birthday Blues (1969); Moonshine (1972); L.A. Turnaround (1974); Avocet (1979); Sketches (1990)
• Alison Moyet: Hoodoo (1991)
• Cliff Richard: Congratulations (1968)
• David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees (1984)
• Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells A Story (1971)
• Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden (1988)
• T Rex: Light Of Love (1974); Zinc Alloy & The Hidden Riders (1974)
• Richard Thompson: Amnesia (1988); Mirror Blue (1994); Live At Crawley (1995); You? Me? Us? (1996); Two Letter Words (1996); Celtschmerz (1998); Mock Tudor (1999); Semi-detached Mock Tudor (2002); The Old Kit Bag (2003); Ducknapped (2003); Live From Austin (2005); Sweet Warrior (2007)
• Loudon Wainwright III: I’m Alright (1985); More Love Songs (1986); Therapy (1989)
• Dawud Wharnsby Ali: Vacuous Waxing (2004)

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External links

• The Official Danny Thompson Website
• Danny Thompson My Space
• The Danny Thompson Website
• Danny Thompson Cd's and Pristine Unplayed Vinyls
• Biography
• Thompson and Islam
• Worked extensively with John Martyn in the 1970s