Lucky Thompson

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1924-06-16

Active to

2005-07-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

26,699

Total plays

188,600

Eli (Lucky) Thompson (June 16, 1924 in Columbia, South Carolina – July 30, 2005 in Seattle, Washington) was an African American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. He is considered to have, alongside Steve Lacy brought the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence, playing it in a more advanced boppish format, which inspired John Coltrane to take it up in the early 1960s. After playing with the swing orchestras of Lionel Hampton, Don Redman, Billy Eckstine <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lucky+

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

   · 2003 · cited 52,658x

2. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

   · 1994 · cited 52,089x

3. Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis

   · 2002 · cited 32,046x

4. The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools

   · 1997 · cited 31,742x

5. Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0

   · 2007 · cited 24,982x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Thompson

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Detroit

Place of death

Seattle

Occupation

musician

Employer

Dartmouth College

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

jazz

Instrument

saxophone

Record label

Chess Records

Official website

www.attictoys.com/jazz/LT_intro.html

Image

Lucky Thompson Hilda A. Taylor and Al McKibbon.jpg

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