Lucky Thompson

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They Didn't Believe Me 00:00 Tools
Fillet of Soul 00:00 Tools
Meet Quincy Jones 00:00 Tools
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The Man i Love 00:00 Tools
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Midnight Sun 00:00 Tools
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Long Ago And Far Away 00:00 Tools
Love And Respect 00:00 Tools
The Hour of Parting 00:00 Tools
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As Time Goes By 00:00 Tools
There's No You 00:00 Tools
How About You 00:00 Tools
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Tea for Two 00:00 Tools
People 00:00 Tools
I Forgot To Remember 00:00 Tools
We'll Be Together Again 00:00 Tools
Slowin' Down The Blues 00:00 Tools
Who? 00:00 Tools
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Cherokee 00:00 Tools
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You Are My Dream 00:00 Tools
Tight Squeeze 00:00 Tools
Take The 'A' Train 00:00 Tools
Gone With the Wind 00:00 Tools
Marcel Le Fourreur 00:00 Tools
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Jeep's Blues 00:00 Tools
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Happy Days Are Here Again 00:00 Tools
G And B 00:00 Tools
Fly With The Wind 00:00 Tools
Why Was I Born? 00:00 Tools
Mumba Neua 00:00 Tools
Prey-Loot 00:00 Tools
Just One More Chance 00:00 Tools
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Our Shared Blessings 00:00 Tools
No More 00:00 Tools
Dodo's Lament 00:00 Tools
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Dancing Sunbeam 00:00 Tools
Bo-Bi My Boy 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna See My Baby 00:00 Tools
Tricrotism 00:00 Tools
My Funny Valentine 00:00 Tools
Tom-Kattin 00:00 Tools
I Can't Give You Anything but Love 00:00 Tools
A Lady's Vanity 00:00 Tools
A Minor Delight 00:00 Tools
Once There Was 00:00 Tools
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Things Ain't What They Used to Be 00:00 Tools
The World Awakes 00:00 Tools
Vout Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Irresistible You 00:00 Tools
Safari 00:00 Tools
Home Comin' 00:00 Tools
Body and Soul 00:00 Tools
Tom-Kattin' 00:00 Tools
Little Tenderfoot 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Tuesday 00:00 Tools
Tricotism 00:00 Tools
The Plain but the Simple Truth 00:00 Tools
Why Not 00:00 Tools
Good Luck 00:00 Tools
Mister Man 00:00 Tools
Stormy Mood 00:00 Tools
Stewin' up a Wig 00:00 Tools
Tenderly 00:00 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones 00:00 Tools
I'll Be Around 00:00 Tools
When Sunny Is Blue 00:00 Tools
O.W. 00:00 Tools
Flight Of The Vout Bug 00:00 Tools
For You 00:00 Tools
You Stepped Out Of A Dream 00:00 Tools
Then Soul Walked In 00:00 Tools
Look For The Silver Lining 00:00 Tools
Snowbound 00:00 Tools
It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream 00:00 Tools
Let's Try Again 00:00 Tools
Why Do I Love You? 00:00 Tools
But Not For Me 00:00 Tools
Bee Boogie Boo 00:00 Tools
Lucky Strikes 00:00 Tools
Boppin' the Blues 00:00 Tools
I should Care 00:00 Tools
Choose Your Own 00:00 Tools
You've Changed 00:00 Tools
Abernathy's Boogie 00:00 Tools
Hickory Dickory Dock 00:00 Tools
N R #2 00:00 Tools
N R #1 00:00 Tools
Green Dolphin Street 00:00 Tools
Monsoon 00:00 Tools
You Don't Know What Love Is 00:00 Tools
My Love Supreme 00:00 Tools
Lullaby Of The Leaves 00:00 Tools
Thin Ice 00:00 Tools
Easy going 00:00 Tools
What's New 00:00 Tools
One For the Boys And Us 00:00 Tools
Undecided 00:00 Tools
Home Free 00:00 Tools
Irresistable You 00:00 Tools
Thin Ice Unissued Take 1 00:00 Tools
Say That To Say This 00:00 Tools
Brother Bob 00:00 Tools
Velvet Rain 00:00 Tools
Fascinating Blues 00:00 Tools
Smooth Sailing 00:00 Tools
Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know? 00:00 Tools
Scratching The Surface 00:00 Tools
Lovely To Look At 00:00 Tools
One Last Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me 00:00 Tools
Spanyola 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 00:00 Tools
Don't Blame Me 00:00 Tools
Minor Works 00:00 Tools
You Go to My Head 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Django 00:00 Tools
Quick as a Flash 00:00 Tools
East of the Sun 00:00 Tools
Commercial Eyes 00:00 Tools
Street Scene 00:00 Tools
Strike Up the Band 00:00 Tools
From Dixieland to Bop 00:00 Tools
Aliyah 00:00 Tools
Dodo's Bounce 00:00 Tools
Back Home from Yesterday 00:00 Tools
Pennies From Heaven 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Brown 00:00 Tools
Munsoon 00:00 Tools
Soul's Nite Out 00:00 Tools
Slam's Mishap 00:00 Tools
Boulevard Bounce 00:00 Tools
Dearly Beloved 00:00 Tools
Star Eyes 00:00 Tools
One Cool Night 00:00 Tools
Poor Butterfly 00:00 Tools
I Cover the Waterfront 00:00 Tools
To a Mornin' Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Cry Me A River 00:00 Tools
A Sunkissed Rose 00:00 Tools
Once Upon a Time 00:00 Tools
Bluebird blues 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad 00:00 Tools
Spoken Introduction (By Lucky Thompson) 00:00 Tools
A Distant Sound 00:00 Tools
Minor Blues 00:00 Tools
Soul Food 00:00 Tools
I Want A Little Girl 00:00 Tools
Frantic Blues 00:00 Tools
Why Weep? 00:00 Tools
To You Dear One 00:00 Tools
NR #1 00:00 Tools
No-Good Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Paris Blues 00:00 Tools
Theme 00:00 Tools
Spanish Rails 00:00 Tools
Our Love is Here to Stay 00:00 Tools
Still Waters 00:00 Tools
Up Above My Head 00:00 Tools
Lover Man 00:00 Tools
Embassy Boogie 00:00 Tools
Minuet in Blues 00:00 Tools
How Long Blues 00:00 Tools
Lucky T 00:00 Tools
Sauvabelin 00:00 Tools
But Not for Tonight 00:00 Tools
Soul Carnival 00:00 Tools
You Move, You Lose 00:00 Tools
NR #2 00:00 Tools
But Not Tonight 00:00 Tools
The Moment of Truth 00:00 Tools
Schuffle That Ruff 00:00 Tools
'Twas Yesterday 00:00 Tools
Indian Summer 00:00 Tools
Thin Ice Take 2 00:00 Tools
Where or When 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady - These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
Lady Bird 00:00 Tools
Don't Drive This Jive Away 00:00 Tools
Love 00:00 Tools
Street Of Dreams 00:00 Tools
I Came From Sunday 00:00 Tools
Alan Grant Speaks 00:00 Tools
Slow Dough 00:00 Tools
The Parisian Knight 00:00 Tools
Brown Rose 00:00 Tools
Stewin' Up A Wig - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Firebug 00:00 Tools
Why Weep 00:00 Tools
Evil Eva 00:00 Tools
To A Mornnin'Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
Open Haus 00:00 Tools
Tricrostism 00:00 Tools
Caressable 00:00 Tools
Passionately Yours 00:00 Tools
Anthropology 00:00 Tools
Alan Grant Interviews Band Members 00:00 Tools
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Tune for Tex 00:00 Tools
My Old Flame 00:00 Tools
Oodie Coo Bop (Ornithology) [Part 2] [Part 2] 00:00 Tools
Passin' Time 00:00 Tools
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On Tippy Top 00:00 Tools
Nothin' but the Soul 00:00 Tools
Green Dolphin Street ['Jazz (We've Got)'] 00:00 Tools
Takin'Care O'Business 00:00 Tools
Passin'Time 00:00 Tools
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Centre Ville 00:00 Tools
The World Awakes (Half-Note version) 00:00 Tools
Boppin' Bop (What Is This Thing Called Love) Part 1 00:00 Tools
One Cool Night Unissued Take 1 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
Takin' Care'n Business 00:00 Tools
Kinfolks Corner 00:00 Tools
Blues 'N' Boogie 00:00 Tools
Baggin' The Boogie 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
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Ever so Easy 00:00 Tools
Lady Gail 00:00 Tools
Easy to Love 00:00 Tools
Soul City 00:00 Tools
Boppin' Bop (What Is This Thing Called Love) Part 2 00:00 Tools
Test Pilot (Part 1) 00:00 Tools
Who Can I Turn To 00:00 Tools
Sophisticated Lady 00:00 Tools
One O'Clock Jump 00:00 Tools
East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) 00:00 Tools
My Gal Is Gone 00:00 Tools
Test pilots 00:00 Tools
Test Pilot (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
One Cool Night Take 2 00:00 Tools
Satin doll 00:00 Tools
Lullaby in Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Prelude to a Mood 00:00 Tools
When Sunny Gets Blue 00:00 Tools
These Foolish Things 00:00 Tools
Meet Quincy Jones (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Nothin'But The Soul 00:00 Tools
Mood Indigo 00:00 Tools
Mr. E-Z 00:00 Tools
Easy Living 00:00 Tools
Inivation 00:00 Tools
Bluebird Blues (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Lester leaps in 00:00 Tools
Salute to Charlie Parker 00:00 Tools
I Surrender Dear 00:00 Tools
Einsames Mädchen Am Meer 00:00 Tools
Jeannie 00:00 Tools
Say That Say This 00:00 Tools
Take The A Train 02:36 Tools
Have You Met Miss Jones? 00:00 Tools
I'm in the Mood for Love 00:00 Tools
Dodo’s Lament 00:00 Tools
Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know 00:00 Tools
You'd Be Frantic Too 00:00 Tools
Just One More Chance (04-22-47) 00:00 Tools
Green Dolphin Street - Live 00:00 Tools
Oodie Coo Bop 00:00 Tools
Flamingo 00:00 Tools
This Here 00:00 Tools
Gone With The Wind (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Sugar Hip 00:00 Tools
Souscription - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good) 00:00 Tools
Have a Light 00:00 Tools
Everything Happens To Me 00:00 Tools
There's No You - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Kamman's a' Comin' 00:00 Tools
Mambo in Blues 00:00 Tools
The Scene Is Clean 00:00 Tools
Souscription (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
You Move You Lose 00:00 Tools
Taps Miller 00:00 Tools
Shuffle That Riff 00:00 Tools
Paris the Beautiful 00:00 Tools
Oodie Coo Bop (Parts 1 & 2) [=Ornithology] 00:00 Tools
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Influence (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Kamman's A'Comin' 00:00 Tools
Gee Baby ain't I Good 00:00 Tools
Bopin' Bop - Part 1 00:00 Tools
Stewin' Up A Wig (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
I Should Care (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Fascinating Blues (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Yardbird Suite 00:00 Tools
Gone With The Wind - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
A Night In Tunisia 00:00 Tools
Meet Quincy Jones - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
How High The Moon 00:00 Tools
The Lady In Bed 00:00 Tools
The Parisian Knights 00:00 Tools
Blue 'n' Boogie 00:00 Tools
Long Ago (And Far Away) 00:00 Tools
Takin' Care 'n Business 00:00 Tools
Big Noise (Parts 1-3) 00:00 Tools
Now's The Time 00:00 Tools
Marcel Le Fourreur - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Tight Squeeze - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
Takin' Care N'business 00:00 Tools
Bopin' Bop - Part 2 00:00 Tools
Lord, Lord Am I Ever Gonna Know 00:00 Tools
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G And B (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Ornithology 00:00 Tools
'Round About Midnight 00:00 Tools
How About You? 00:00 Tools
Theme for a Brown Rose 00:00 Tools
Big Noise 00:00 Tools
Who 00:00 Tools
Tom Kattin' 00:00 Tools
Test Pilots - Part 1 00:00 Tools
There's No You (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Ginger 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
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Easy Going (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
It Ain't Like That 00:00 Tools
Influence - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
I Want to Be Happy 00:00 Tools
What´s New 00:00 Tools
No Good Man Blues 00:00 Tools
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G And B - Instrumental 00:00 Tools
One Cool Night (Alternate Takes) 00:00 Tools
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Pussin' Time 00:00 Tools
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Thin Ice (Alternate Takes) 00:00 Tools
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Big Noise - Part 1 00:00 Tools
Thin Ice (Take 1) 00:00 Tools
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Home Free (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
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Green Dolphin Street (Jazz (We've Got) ) 00:00 Tools
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Düsseldorf Süd Wuppertal West 00:00 Tools
Nothing' But The Soul 00:00 Tools
Soul´s Nite Out 00:00 Tools
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Stewin'up a wing 00:00 Tools
Let's Try Again (Instrumental) 00:00 Tools
Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Kn 00:00 Tools
One O' Clock Jump 00:00 Tools
yo've changed 00:00 Tools
Who Can I Turn To? 00:00 Tools
Mr. Man 00:00 Tools
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Why Do I Love You 00:00 Tools
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Eli (Lucky) Thompson (June 16, 1924 in Columbia, South Carolina – July 30, 2005 in Seattle, Washington) was an African American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. He is considered to have, alongside Steve Lacy brought the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence, playing it in a more advanced boppish format, which inspired John Coltrane to take it up in the early 1960s. After playing with the swing orchestras of Lionel Hampton, Don Redman, Billy Eckstine, Lucky Millinder, and Count Basie, he worked in rhythm and blues and then established a career in bop and hard bop, working with Kenny Clarke, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson. Thompson was an inspired soloist on Stan Kenton's record "Cuban Fire", and he himself recorded many albums during the mid-1950s. He appeared on Miles Davis's historic hard bop Walkin' session. He lived in Lausanne, Switzerland in the late 1960s and recorded several albums there including "A Lucky Songbook in Europe". He taught at Dartmouth College in 1973 and 1974, then left the music business completely, as a consequence of the racial discrimination and treatment he received from record companies and clubs. Born in Columbia, SC, on June 16, 1924, tenor saxophonist Lucky Thompson bridged the gap between the physical dynamism of swing and the cerebral intricacies of bebop, emerging as one of his instrument's foremost practitioners and a stylist par excellence. Eli Thompson's lifelong nickname -- the byproduct of a jersey, given him by his father, with the word "lucky" stitched across the chest -- would prove bitterly inappropriate: when he was five, his mother died, and the remainder of his childhood, spent largely in Detroit, was devoted to helping raise his younger siblings. Thompson loved music, but without hope of acquiring an instrument of his own, he ran errands to earn enough money to purchase an instructional book on the saxophone, complete with fingering chart. He then carved imitation lines and keys into a broom handle, teaching himself to read music years before he ever played an actual sax. According to legend, Thompson finally received his own saxophone by accident -- a delivery company mistakenly dropped one off at his home along with some furniture, and after graduating high school and working briefly as a barber, he signed on with Erskine Hawkins' 'Bama State Collegians, touring with the group until 1943, when he joined Lionel Hampton and settled in New York City. Soon after his arrival in the Big Apple, Thompson was tapped to replace Ben Webster during his regular gig at the 52nd Street club the Three Deuces -- Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Art Tatum were all in attendance at Thompson's debut gig, and while he deemed the performance a disaster (a notorious perfectionist, he was rarely if ever pleased with his work), he nevertheless quickly earned the respect of his peers and became a club fixture. After a stint with bassist Slam Stewart, Thompson again toured with Hampton before joining singer Billy Eckstine's short-lived big band that included Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Art Blakey -- in other words, the crucible of bebop. But although he played on some of the earliest and most influential bop dates, Thompson never fit squarely within the movement's paradigm -- his playing boasted an elegance and formal power all his own, with an emotional depth rare among the tenor greats of his generation. He joined the Count Basie Orchestra in late 1944, exiting the following year while in Los Angeles and remaining there until 1946, in the interim playing on and arranging a series of dates for the Exclusive label. Thompson returned to the road when Gillespie hired him to replace Parker in their epochal combo -- he also played on Parker's landmark March 28, 1946, session for Dial, and that same year was a member of the Charles Mingus and Buddy Collette-led Stars of Swing which, sadly, never recorded. Thompson returned to New York in 1947, leading his own band at the famed Savoy Ballroom. The following year, he made his European debut at the Nice Jazz Festival, and went on to feature on sessions headlined by Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis (the seminal Walkin'). Backed by a group dubbed the Lucky Seven that included trumpeter Harold Johnson and altoist Jimmy Powell, Thompson cut his first studio session as a leader on August 14, 1953, returning the following March 2. For the most part he remained a sideman for the duration of his career, however, enjoying a particularly fruitful collaboration with Milt Jackson that yielded several LPs during the mid-'50s. But many musicians, not to mention industry executives, found Thompson difficult to deal with -- he was notoriously outspoken about what he considered the unfair power wielded over the jazz business by record labels, music publishers, and booking agents, and in February 1956 he sought to escape these "vultures" by relocating his family to Paris. Two months later he joined Stan Kenton's French tour, even returning to the U.S. with Kenton's group, but he soon found himself blacklisted by Louis Armstrong's manager, Joe Glaser, after a bizarre conflict with the beloved jazz pioneer over which musician should be the first to leave their plane after landing. Without steady work, he returned to Paris, cutting several sessions with producer Eddie Barclay. Thompson remained in France until 1962, returning to New York and a year later headlining the Prestige LP Plays Jerome Kern and No More, which featured pianist Hank Jones. Around this same time his wife died, and in addition to struggling to raise their children on his own, Thompson's old battles with the jazz power structure also remained, and in 1966 he formally announced his retirement in the pages of Down Beat magazine. Within a few months he returned to active duty, but remained frustrated with the industry and his own ability -- during the March 20, 1968, date captured on the Candid CD Lord, Lord Am I Ever Gonna Know?, he says "I feel I have only scratched the surface of what I know I am capable of doing." From late 1968 to 1970, Thompson lived in Lausanne, Switzerland, touring widely across Europe before returning the U.S., where he taught music at Dartmouth University and in 1973 led his final recording, I Offer You. The remaining decades of Thompson's life are in large part a mystery -- he spent several years living on Ontario's Manitoulin Island before relocating to Savannah, GA, trading his saxophones in exchange for dental work. He eventually migrated to the Pacific Northwest, and after a long period of homelessness checked into Seattle's Columbia City Assisted Living Center in 1994. Thompson remained in assisted care until his death on July 30, 2005. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.