![]() ![]() 2 (1957) with Tommy Flanagan, David Amram, Ed London, Art Farmer, Gigi Gryce, Betty Glamamm, Jimmy Cleveland, Osie Johnson, Danny Bank, Jerome Richardson, Lucky Thompson, Ernie Royal.Our sheet lead is made from pure lead that meets or surpasses ASTM B29 – 03 L50021 standard (99.97% purity). The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi, Vol. Big Band: Deep Passion (GRP, 1956-57) with Tommy Flanagan, David Amram, Julius Watkins, David Kurtzer, Jerome Richardson, Osie Johnson, Gigi Gryce, Lucky Thompson, Art Farmer, Danny Bank, Jimmy Cleveland, Ernie Royal, Janet Putnam u.a. Jazz in Paris, with Dave Pochonet All Stars (Sunnyside, 2001) Modern Jazz Group (EmArcy, no date/Sunnyside, 2000) Paris Blue, with Sammy Price (Concord Jazz, 2000) Lucky Thompson Plays Happy Days Are Here Again (Prestige, 1965) Lucky Thompson Plays Jerome Kern and No More (Moodsville, 1963) Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know? (Candid, 1961) Thompson also had a daughter, Jade Thompson-Fredericks, and two grandchildren.Īccent On Tenor (Urania, 1954 reissued by Fresh Sound) Thompson's son, guitarist Daryl Thompson, played with Peter Tosh and Black Uhuru before embarking on a jazz career in the late 1980s. Thompson was married to Thelma Thompson, who died in 1963. Thompson died in an assisted living facility on July 30, 2005. Acquaintances reported that Thompson was homeless by the early 1990s, and lived as a hermit. In his last years he lived in Seattle, Washington. He taught at Dartmouth College in 19, then completely left the music business. Thompson returned to New York, then lived in Lausanne, Switzerland from 1968 until 1970, and recorded several albums there including A Lucky Songbook in Europe. During this time, he began playing soprano saxophone. Thompson was strongly critical of the music business, later describing promoters, producers and record companies as "parasites" or "vultures." This, in part, led him to move to Paris, where he lived and made several recordings between 19. Thompson recorded albums as leader for ABC Paramount and Prestige and as a sideman on records for Savoy Records with Milt Jackson as leader. He recorded with Charlie Parker (on two Los Angeles Dial Records sessions) and on Miles Davis's hard bop Walkin' session. His sophisticated, harmonically abstract approach to the tenor saxophone built off that of Don Byas and Coleman Hawkins he played with beboppers, but resisted Charlie Parker's pervasive influence." He showed these capabilities as sideman on many albums recorded during the mid-1950s, such as Stan Kenton's Cuban Fire!, and those under his own name. ![]() He joined Erskine Hawkins' band in 1942 upon graduating from high school.Īfter playing with the swing orchestras of Lionel Hampton, Don Redman, Billy Eckstine (alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker), Lucky Millinder, and Count Basie, he worked in rhythm and blues and then established a career in bebop and hard bop, working with Kenny Clarke, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Milt Jackson.īen Ratliff notes that Thompson "connected the swing era to the more cerebral and complex bebop style. Thompson had to raise his siblings after his mother died, and he practiced saxophone fingerings on a broom handle before acquiring his first instrument. Thompson was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and moved to Detroit, Michigan, during his childhood. ![]() While John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence in the early 1960s, Thompson (along with Steve Lacy), embraced the instrument earlier than Coltrane. Instruments Tenor saxophone, soprano saxophoneĪssociated acts Lionel Hampton, Don Redman, Billy Eckstine, Lucky Millinder, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie ParkerĮli "Lucky" Thompson (JJuly 30, 2005) was a United States jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. ![]()
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