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    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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  • Lucky Strikes is an album led by saxophonist Lucky Thompson recorded in 1964 and released on the Prestige label. AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars with...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Sophie Thompson (born 20 January 1962) is a British actress. She has worked in film, television and theatre and she won the 1999 Olivier Award for Best...
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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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    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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  • on bass and Jackie Mills on drums, and in a quartet with saxophonist Lucky Thompson added. He also recorded his only vocal track, "I've Got News for You"...
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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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  • 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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  • player Loren P. Thompson (1927–2015), American politician Lucas P. Thompson (1797–1866), American lawyer and politician Lucky Thompson (1924–2005), American...
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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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    with Parker in 1944, in Billy Eckstine's band with Dizzy Gillespie, Lucky Thompson and Art Blakey. Potter also performed and recorded with many other notable...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • Food to Feel Strong & Happy. Hodder. ISBN 978-1-4736-7735-7. Thompson, Louise (2024). Lucky: Learning to live again. Ebury Spotlight. ISBN 978-1-5299-2376-6...
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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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    playing with territory bands in Grand Rapids and Lansing in 1944, he met Lucky Thompson, who invited Jones to work in New York City at the Onyx Club with Hot...
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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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  • 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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  • vocalist Dinah Washington, compiling her early recordings from 1945 with Lucky Thompson and His All Stars that were originally issued by Apollo Records. It...
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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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