Eli "Lucky" Thompson was one of jazz's most confident and engaging tenor saxophonists. On recordings, his imagination on solos was so fast and bountiful that he filled virtually every spare space with warm, exciting ideas. Over the course of his career, Thompson was artistically most at home in Paris, as evidenced by his exhilarating slippery and smokey…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to JazzWax to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.