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| | The great Jack by Steve Braunias | New Zealand Listener |
 | | He was pure old school, by all accounts a diamond geezer, fond of a drink and a bet, hugely entertaining – and, perhaps, a troubled man. Jack Thompson, legendary piano player, died in 1979. |
 | | A child prodigy, groomed to play the classics – but Thompson broke out, and left school knowing his future was in rinky-dink-dink, honky-tonk piano. |
 | | All those K's tell you something about the Jack Thompson Sound: "Hello Dolly" and "Now Is the Hour" and "Moon River" – and his crowdstopper, "The Bells of St Mary's". |
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