Eli "Lucky" Thompson (June 16, 1924 – July 30, 2005) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist whose playing combined elements of swing and bebop...
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Degüello, contains a reference to Lucky Strikes The cover art for the 1964 album Lucky Strikes by the saxophonist Lucky Thompson was modelled after the cigarette...
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Lucky Strikes is an album led by saxophonist Lucky Thompson recorded in 1964 and released on the Prestige label. The title and cover art are modelled...
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there that McLeod appeared on French television in a performance with Lucky Thompson, Pierre Michelot and Kenny Clarke. She married Kenny "Pancho" Hagood...
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presenter Lucky Teter (1901–1942), American stunt driver and promoter Lucky Thompson (1924-2005), American jazz saxophonist Charles Weeghman (1874-1938)...
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Goodbye Yesterday (Lucky Thompson, 1972) Concert: Friday the 13th – Cook County Jail (Lucky Thompson, 1972) I Offer You (Lucky Thompson, 1973) Another Story...
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Illinois Jacquet, Flip Phillips, Ike Quebec, Al Sears, Paul Gonsalves, and Lucky Thompson. While Hawkins became known with swing music during the big band era...
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players Sonny Criss and Frank Morgan, tenor players Teddy Edwards and Lucky Thompson, trombonist Melba Liston, pianists Dodo Marmarosa, Jimmy Bunn and Hampton...
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Billy Higgins (section With Lucky Thompson)
Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer. He played mainly free jazz and hard bop. Higgins was born in Los Angeles,...
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Eli Thompson may refer to: Lucky Thompson (1924–2005), American saxophonist Eli Thompson (skydiver) (1973–2009), American skydiver Eli Thompson (Boardwalk...
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out in Horace Silver's room at the Arlington Hotel. J.J. Johnson and Lucky Thompson provided a big horn sound, on top of Silver's funky piano and Clarke’s...
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up all of side one, was a sextet with J. J. Johnson on trombone and Lucky Thompson on tenor saxophone. The rhythm section was identical to the earlier...
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relocated to Europe including Kenny Dorham, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Lucky Thompson, and Anthony Braxton. Tete Montoliu recorded two albums in the US, and...
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Musicians on the album include Charles Mingus, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Lucky Thompson, Hank Jones, Paul Chambers, Milt Jackson, Art Pepper, Zoot Sims, and...
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Lucky Thompson Plays Happy Days Are Here Again is an album led by saxophonist Lucky Thompson recorded in 1965 and released on the Moodsville label. AllMusic...
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Lucky Thompson Plays Jerome Kern and No More is an album led by saxophonist Lucky Thompson recorded in 1963 and released on the Moodsville label. AllMusic...
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the credits - he is the saxophonist (alto) for five of the six cuts. Lucky Thompson is on only one cut, playing soprano sax on "Spot Session" with the quartet...
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Confessin' (compiles Madame Foo-Foo and I Want a Country Man) GM 4411 Lucky Thompson: Illuminations (compiles Goodbye Yesterday and I Offer You) Jazzlists:...
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with Chet Baker, Bobby Jaspar, Kenny Clarke, Eddy Louiss, Stan Getz, Lucky Thompson, Sonny Criss, Jacques Pelzer, Lou Bennett, Charles "Lolo" Bellonzi,...
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S Blues & Hot Club Boogie (Ducretet Thomson, 1956) Sammy Price Avec Lucky Thompson (Polydor, 1957) 1956 Boogie-Woogie A La Parisienne (Pathe Marconi, 2002)...
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Goodbye Yesterday (Lucky Thompson, 1972) Concert: Friday the 13th – Cook County Jail (Lucky Thompson, 1972) I Offer You (Lucky Thompson, 1973) Another Story...
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recordings for Apollo Records, 10 of which were issued, featuring the Lucky Thompson All Stars. She stayed with Hampton's band until 1946, after the Keynote...
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Johnny Hodges, Walter Parazaider, Oliver Nelson, Bob Berg, Joe Farrell, Lucky Thompson, Sonny Fortune, Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers, Gary Bartz, Bennie Maupin...
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Goodbye Yesterday (category Lucky Thompson albums)
Goodbye Yesterday is an album featuring performances by jazz saxophonist Lucky Thompson which was released on the Groove Merchant label. Allmusic's Scott Yanow...
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28, 1946, as the Charlie Parker Septet, accompanied by Miles Davis, Lucky Thompson and Dodo Marmarosa, who were performing with Parker at the Finale Club...
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Ellington and John Coltrane – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane (1962) Lucky Thompson - Lucky Strikes (1964) Nancy Wilson with Hank Jones – But Beautiful (1969)...
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Peace Prize Crystal Shawanda, country music artist from Wiikwemkoong Lucky Thompson, American jazz saxophone player "Census Profile, 2016 Census - Manitoulin...
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politician Lucky Thompson (1924–2005), American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist Luke Thompson (disambiguation), multiple people Lyle Thompson (born 1992)...
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32-44) Clark Terry: Clark Terry (EmArcy, 1955) Lucky Thompson: Accent on Tenor Sax (FSR, 1954) Lucky Thompson: Tricotism (Impulse, 1956) George Wallington:...
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Johnson, Paul Quinichette, Jimmy Rushing, Sonny Stitt, Charles Thompson, and Lucky Thompson. Eugenie Baird, Eugenie Baird Sings, Duke's Boys Play Ellington...
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