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Lucky Thompson - Complete Parisian Small Group Sessions 1956-1959 (2017)

Lucky Thompson - Complete Parisian Small Group Sessions 1956-1959 (2017)

BAND/ARTIST: Lucky Thompson

  • Title: Complete Parisian Small Group Sessions 1956-1959
  • Year Of Release: 2017
  • Label: Fresh Sound Records
  • Genre: Jazz
  • Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 05:00:14
  • Total Size: 700 mb | 1.6 gb
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Tracklist:

CD1

1. Lucky Thompson - Thin Ice
2. Lucky Thompson - A Minor Delight
3. Lucky Thompson - Takin' Care O'Business
4. Lucky Thompson - Ballad Medley (Sophisticated Lady _ These Foolish Things)
5. Lucky Thompson - One Cool Night
6. Lucky Thompson - The Man I Love
7. Lucky Thompson - There's No You
8. Lucky Thompson - Gone with the Wind
9. Lucky Thompson - Tight Squeeze
10. Lucky Thompson - You Go to My Head
11. Lucky Thompson - Undecided
12. Lucky Thompson - Don't Blame Me
13. Lucky Thompson - Our Love Is Here to Stay
14. Lucky Thompson - But Not for Me
15. Lucky Thompson - Indian Summer
16. Lucky Thompson - Tenderly
17. Lucky Thompson - I Can't Give You Anything But Love
18. Lucky Thompson - East of the Sun
19. Lucky Thompson - I Cover the Waterfront

CD2

1. Lucky Thompson - My Funny Valentine
2. Lucky Thompson - Lullaby in Rhythm
3. Lucky Thompson - You Are My Dream
4. Lucky Thompson - Lucky Strikes
5. Lucky Thompson - My Love Supreme
6. Lucky Thompson - Passin' Time
7. Lucky Thompson - Nothin' But the Soul
8. Lucky Thompson - Why Weep_
9. Lucky Thompson - To a Mornin' Sunrise
10. Lucky Thompson - Lullaby of the Leaves
11. Lucky Thompson - Fascinating Blues
12. Lucky Thompson - Let's Try Again
13. Lucky Thompson - Stewin' Up a Wig
14. Lucky Thompson - Rainbow Inn
15. Lucky Thompson - The World Awakes
16. Lucky Thompson - Take Care… Beware (Capricorn)
17. Lucky Thompson - My Heart Speaks
18. Lucky Thompson - Seeing is Believing
19. Lucky Thompson - Yard Bird's Pet

CD3

1. Lucky Thompson - You Move, You Lose
2. Lucky Thompson - Velvet Rain
3. Lucky Thompson - One Last Goodbye
4. Lucky Thompson - Fine and Lucky
5. Lucky Thompson - Ow!
6. Lucky Thompson - What is this Thing Called Love_
7. Lucky Thompson - Time on My Hands
8. Lucky Thompson - Everything Happens to Me
9. Lucky Thompson - Fine and Dandy
10. Lucky Thompson - I Should Care
11. Lucky Thompson - I Want a Little Girl
12. Lucky Thompson - Paris Blues
13. Lucky Thompson - Up Above My Head
14. Lucky Thompson - Minor Blues
15. Lucky Thompson - Sweet Georgia Brown
16. Lucky Thompson - How Long Blues
17. Lucky Thompson - Lucky T
18. Lucky Thompson - Embassy Boogie

CD4

1. Lucky Thompson - Now's the Time
2. Lucky Thompson - The Squirrel
3. Lucky Thompson - Stompin' at the Savoy
4. Lucky Thompson - Four
5. Lucky Thompson - Have You Met Miss Jones_
6. Lucky Thompson - Solitude
7. Lucky Thompson - Soul Food
8. Lucky Thompson - Pennies from Heaven
9. Lucky Thompson - How About You_
10. Lucky Thompson - Midnight Sun
11. Lucky Thompson - Tea for Two
12. Lucky Thompson - Brother Bob
13. Lucky Thompson - We'll Be Together Again
14. Lucky Thompson - O.W.
15. Lucky Thompson - Don't Blame Me (INA Archives)
16. Lucky Thompson - Blues for Frank
17. Lucky Thompson - Takin' Care O'Business (Cologne, Germany, February 7, 1959)
18. Lucky Thompson - The World Awakes (Cologne, Germany, February 7, 1959)

Lucky Thompson (1924-2005) had never been accorded the praise he deserved in the United States, despite the fact that in the 40s many prominent critics and musicians considered him the finest tenor-saxophone player to appear in jazz since the emergence of Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. He never found work easily in his own country, maybe because he expressed his views too forcibly about the various rackets going on behind the glittering facade of the musical profession. It got so bad that by the 1950s Lucky was practically ignored by most record labels, which deliberately passed over his name time and time again rather than employ him.

This was the situation in 1956, when he decided to move to Paris like Don Byas and several others before him hoping for better things in Europe where his name meant something to jazz critics and collectors. In the months after his arrival in Paris, Lucky appeared on more record sessions than he had in the previous several years in his own country.

These Parisian recordings (1956-1959) went a long way towards proving Lucky Thompson s stature in jazz; they show that his neglect was uncalled for, and that he was a superb fountain of finely-embroidered jazz improvisation.


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