Chester Thompson returns to jazz roots With the fast-fingered, ferociously swinging attack he displayed on his debut album, "Powerhouse," released in 1971 on the short-lived, now-legendary Black Jazz label, Thompson began making a name for himself in the jazz world, especially among fellow organists. Thompson managed to stay quite busy, however, during his four-decade sabbatical from playing straight-ahead jazz, as attested to by the dozen Grammy and Latin Grammy awards that are displayed in a glass cabinet in the living room of the Millbrae hillside home where he has resided since ... Read More