Yesterday, I posted on Solo, a 1963 album for Verve by trombonist Kai Winding. Accompanying Winding on the three days of recording was pianist Ross Tompkins. Who was he? Tompkins was probably best known as the pianist on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1971 to 1992, when Carson retired. [Photo above of Ross Tompkins]
Born in Detroit in 1938,…
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