LUCKY THOMPSON

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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 read more...
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LUCKY THOMPSON Accent on Tenor (aka Lucky Thompson) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Accent on Tenor (aka Lucky Thompson)
Bop 1956
LUCKY THOMPSON Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford
Bop 1956
LUCKY THOMPSON Lucky Thompson Big Band : Lucky Strikes! (aka Brown Rose) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lucky Thompson Big Band : Lucky Strikes! (aka Brown Rose)
Big Band 1956
LUCKY THOMPSON Club Session N°IV  Dabve Pochonet Et Son Orchestre Avec Lucky Thompson (aka Lucky Thompson With Dave Pochonet All Stars) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Club Session N°IV Dabve Pochonet Et Son Orchestre Avec Lucky Thompson (aka Lucky Thompson With Dave Pochonet All Stars)
Bop 1956
LUCKY THOMPSON To the Sax Paradise album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
To the Sax Paradise
Bop 1956
LUCKY THOMPSON Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford (Vol. II) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford (Vol. II)
Bop 1957
LUCKY THOMPSON Lucky Thompson (With Gérard Pochonet & His Quartet)(aka Lullaby in Rhythm aka Lucky Standards) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lucky Thompson (With Gérard Pochonet & His Quartet)(aka Lullaby in Rhythm aka Lucky Standards)
Bop 1957
LUCKY THOMPSON Lucky Thompson Plays Jerome Kern and No More album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lucky Thompson Plays Jerome Kern and No More
Bop 1963
LUCKY THOMPSON Happy Days Are Here Again album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Happy Days Are Here Again
Bop 1965
LUCKY THOMPSON Lucky Strikes album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lucky Strikes
Bop 1965
LUCKY THOMPSON Kinfolks Corner album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kinfolks Corner
Bop 1966
LUCKY THOMPSON A Lucky Songbook in Europe album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Lucky Songbook in Europe
Bop 1969
LUCKY THOMPSON Body & Soul album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Body & Soul
Bop 1970
LUCKY THOMPSON Soul's Nite Out album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Soul's Nite Out
Bop 1971
LUCKY THOMPSON Goodbye Yesterday! (aka I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 31) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Goodbye Yesterday! (aka I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 31)
Bop 1973
LUCKY THOMPSON I Offer You (aka  I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 82) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
I Offer You (aka I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 82)
Bop 1973
LUCKY THOMPSON Dancing Sunbeam album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Dancing Sunbeam
Bop 1975
LUCKY THOMPSON Back to the World (aka Yesterday's Child) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Back to the World (aka Yesterday's Child)
Bop 1979
LUCKY THOMPSON Paris 1956 Volume 1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Paris 1956 Volume 1
Bop 1985
LUCKY THOMPSON Lucky in Paris album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lucky in Paris
Bop 1999
LUCKY THOMPSON Bop and Ballads album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bop and Ballads
Bop 2016

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LUCKY THOMPSON Ever So Easy album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ever So Easy
Bop 1959

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LUCKY THOMPSON Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know? album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know?
Bop 1997
LUCKY THOMPSON New York City 1964-65 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
New York City 1964-65
Bop 2009
LUCKY THOMPSON Star Chaser Live album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Star Chaser Live
Bop 2014
LUCKY THOMPSON Lucky Thompson & Barney Wilen ‎: Four Brothers album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lucky Thompson & Barney Wilen ‎: Four Brothers
Bop 2015

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LUCKY THOMPSON Illuminations album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Illuminations
Bop 1973
LUCKY THOMPSON Tricotism album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tricotism
Bop 1993
LUCKY THOMPSON Happy Days album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Happy Days
Bop 1994
LUCKY THOMPSON Lucky Thompson and Gigi Gryce in Paris album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Lucky Thompson and Gigi Gryce in Paris
Bop 1995
LUCKY THOMPSON The Chronological Classics: Lucky Thompson 1944-1947 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Chronological Classics: Lucky Thompson 1944-1947
Bop 2000
LUCKY THOMPSON Nothing But the Soul album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Nothing But the Soul
Bop 2002
LUCKY THOMPSON In Paris 1956 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
In Paris 1956
Big Band 2017
LUCKY THOMPSON Complete Parisian Small Group Sessions 1956-1959) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Complete Parisian Small Group Sessions 1956-1959)
Bop 2017

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