Fascinating
These tracks are like little miniature gems. I've got the Impulse CD Tricotism and love it. This one's a must have.
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Fantastic & underrated Lucky Thompson!
##1-7 (Sextet): Lucky Thompson (ts), Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Skeeter Best (g), Hank Jones/Don Abney (p), Oscar Pettiford (b), Osie Johnson (d). Recorded on January 30 & December 12, 1956. ##8-15 (Trio): Lucky Thompson (ts), Skeeter Best/Don Abney (g), Oscar Pettiford (b). Recorded on January 24 & December 11 & 12 1956 Original releases: Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford, Vol. 1 (ABC-Paramount ABC 111) & Lucky Thompson Featuring Oscar Pettiford, Vol. 2 (ABC-Paramount ABC 171) both released on Impulse! Tricotism (Impulse GRD 135) . Now all we need is the release of Oscar Pettiford's \"Complete Big Band Studio Recordings\" and most of the Lucly Thompson With Oscar Pettiford would be available. Great Stuff
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The Rise and Fall of Lucky Thompson
By Kevin Whitehead, eMusic Contributor
A few years ago, Italian saxophonist Daniele D'Agaro was visiting Chicago, and a critic friend put on a fairly obscure record to stump him. D'Agaro listened for about three seconds, said: "Lucky." Good ears. He knows the distinctive sound of Lucky Thompson after he started hanging out in Paris and playing sumptuous tenor saxophone ballads recalling old idol Don Byas's Parisian sides. On "Solitude" and "We'll Be Together Again," from Lucky in Paris 1959, his tenor's… more »