Chester Thompson

Chester Thompson

Chester Cortez Thompson

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In the collection

16 records
Roxy & Elsewhere Zappa / Mothers, 1974 Bongo Fury Zappa / Beefheart / Mothers, 1975 One Size Fits All Frank Zappa And The Mothers Of Invention, 1975 Black Market Weather Report, 1976 Seconds Out Genesis, 1977 Sleep Dirt Frank Zappa, 1979 Three Sides Live Genesis, 1982 You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 2 (The Helsinki Concert) Zappa, 1988 You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 3 Frank Zappa, 1989 Knebworth Various, 1990 You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 4 Zappa, 1991 Läther Frank Zappa, 1996 Roxy By Proxy Zappa / Mothers, 2014 Roxy - The Movie Frank Zappa & The Mothers, 2015 The Book Of Lies Stu Hamm Band, 2015 Cheaper Than Cheep Frank Zappa, 2025

Played with

Frank Zappa 11 records together George Duke 11 records together Tom Fowler 10 records together Ruth Underwood 10 records together Napoleon M. Brock 9 records together Bruce Fowler 8 records together Ralph Humphrey 6 records together The Mothers 5 records together Terry Bozzio 5 records together Genesis 3 records together Phil Collins 3 records together James Youman 3 records together

About

Drummer and percussionist born December 11, 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
For the Tower of Power / Santana keyboard player, please use Chester Thompson (a.k.a Chester D. Thompson).

Thompson has toured and recorded since the 1970s with a number of different artists including O’Donel Levy (1971–1973), Frank Zappa / The Mothers (1973–1975), Weather Report (1975–1976), Genesis (1976–1992, 2007 as tour drummer), Steve Hackett (1978, 1995), Freddie Hubbard, Ahmad Jamal, Phil Collins (1982/83, 1985, 1990, 1999, 2004/05, 2010 as tour drummer), Santana, Bee Gees, Ron Kenoly (1992–1995), Era, John Fogerty, Kirk Whalum, and Michael McDonald, and Taj Mahal & Keb Mo among many others. While still busy recording and performing, he also gives drum lessons at Belmont University (Nashville, TN, USA), along with doing clinics and directing a jazz ensemble. He has lived in Los Angeles (CA, USA) and London (UK), but now is living in Nashville (TN, USA).