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Per ricordare alcune vicende musicali e personali del compianto Danny Thompson (1939-2025) sarà prezioso il film documentario Wotcher diretto da Lee Cogswell e prodotto da Mark Baxter, da tempo in lavorazione e ormai prossimo alla pubblicazione, che includerà tra l'altro alcune parti registrate e riviste assieme a Thompson stesso poche settimane fa, alla vigilia della sua scomparsa. Un breve estratto è disponibile in anteprima su YT. Nel frattempo UK Jazz News ha iniziato a raccogliere testimonianze e saluti di commiato da parte di amici, sostenitori e partner musicali, e tra questi John Etheridge, Liam Noble, Steve Berry e John McLaughlin; al suo blog The Blue Moment così scrive Richard Williams: "Danny was a member of a generation of great double bassists who emerged in and around the British jazz scene in the ’60s. If you wanted to line them up in some kind of taxonomy of interests and instincts across a spectrum of the music with which they were associated, starting with folk and proceeding to contemporary classical, it would probably go something like this: Danny, Ron Matthewson, Dave Green, Jeff Clyne, Harry Miller, Dave Holland, Chris Laurence, Barry Guy. Obviously that’s not everyone. Danny was the Charlie Haden of British bassists, his playing warm and deep-toned, as rooted in folk modes as Haden was in bluegrass music, but just as capable of dealing with the most advanced and abstract forms. Maybe the best way to celebrate his life is to listen to Whatever, the album he recorded for Joe Boyd’s Hannibal label in 1987."
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