The Fourth Arch - to Freedom

by Fred Tompkins

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	My much earlier work "The Third Arch", loosely depicts a musical "arch" form, but here, I was also moved by the dancer Rudolph Nureyev's famous words when asked at the Paris airport in 1961 why he so much wanted to defect to the West..... "I want to be free."

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Welcome to my new initiative, Ongoing Additions, a continuously evolving collection of recently composed and recorded works available here for free listening and downloading. I am also including some early pieces which are not available on any of my CDs

My general plan is to keep the list fairly free and open ended, adding new pieces from time to time and possibly dropping a few. So enjoy, and be sure to give me your feedback whenever you have ideas and opinions about the music! You may also listen to a variety of pieces directly from the home page of my website: www.tompkinsjazz.com, then comment, if you’d like, using the email contact link on the site.

THE FOURTH ARCH - to FREEDOM (2018) - My much earlier work "The Third Arch", loosely depicts a musical "arch" form (with its own source of inspiration), but here, upon seeing the recent movie "The White Crow" on the life of Rudolf Nureyev, I sensed a personal empathy with the dancer's own struggles and was quite moved by his simple, parting words when asked at the Paris airport in 1961 why he so much wanted to defect to the West..............."I want to be free."

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released June 1, 2019

Maryse Carlin - piano
Kyle Honeycutt - drum set

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Fred Tompkins St Louis, Missouri

Fred Tompkins completed his early studies of music in St. Louis but lived in NYC from '72-'90 where he wrote and recorded compositions for a wide variety of small ensembles to include Elvin Jones, David Liebman, Richard Davis and many other great musicians.

Interested in forging his own style of jazz/classical synthesis, he also wrote vocal works to poetry by Keats, Dickinson & Michael Castro. ... more