March 9, 2026 (Tokyo, Japan) - Here is a rare live performance from jazz vocalist Harvey Thompson recorded at the New Mexico State University Southwest Jazz Festival in 1992. The recording, transferred from the original cassette, features Thompson performing with pianist Bill Gaff, bassist Dan Gallardi, drummer Mike Matthews, and a saxophonist who may be Mark Lohman or Mark Holman. This live recording captures the energy and spontaneity of a working jazz ensemble performing at a regional festival in the early 1990s. Unrelated to the singing in the link below but the image is of Harvey along with John McLaughlin Williams, the acclaimed African American violinist, conductor and composer and a four-time Grammy nominee. The full performance can be heard at the link below: https://tinyurl.com/2z2ckaf8

March 3, 2026 (Toyko, Japan) - Some years ago Harvey Thompson visited Detroit his hometown and was interviewed on Greg Dumore's show of Pulsebeat.tv and MildredGaddis' JazzJewels.tv located in Detroit. Harvey was in Detroit along with guitarist Masaaki Miziguchi to share their experiences living and performing in Tokyo.

February 24, 2026 (Tokyo, Japan) Jazz vocalist Harvey Thompson singing this powerful song "Everything Must Change" a few years ago rings true with the thoughts and feelings of people who listen to this song.

From Harvey's book: "Perhaps no song captures the quiet burden Harvey carries quite like Billie Holiday's 'Good Morning Heartache.' In it, Holiday greets her suffering not with rage or despair, but with the weary familiarity of someone who has learned to 'set a place at the table for pain.' For Harvey, those words are not merely a song. They are a mirror. He sometimes has to admit he sits at the table of pain located in Japan. This book was first annotated sitting at a table in Harvey's small apartment in Tokyo. The depression that visits him does not always arrive with drama or announcement. It simply pulls up a chair, as it did for so many of the jazz giants he has spent his life honoring. And like Holiday, Harvey has never allowed that darkness to silence him. Instead, he has done what only the truly gifted can. He has taken it to the stage, turned it into something beautiful, and given it back to the world as music. This is something most fans of jazz don't realize when you begin examining the reality of the emotional burdens artists like Harvey carry."

February 17, 2026 (Tokyo, Japan) - Jazz vocalist Harvey Thompson singing along with the fantastic pianist Hiroshi Tanaka and guitarist Masaki Mizuguchi. Today we met in Yoyoi at Hiroshi Tanaka's private studio for a jazz session to keep everyone tuned in and warmed up on a cold and cloudy winter afternoon in Tokyo.