{"id":3089,"date":"2011-11-18T17:56:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T01:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2011-11-18T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T03:56:40","slug":"other-places-lucky-thompson-dave-brubeck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/11\/other-places-lucky-thompson-dave-brubeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Lucky Thompson &#038; Dave Brubeck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <em>Jazz Profiles<\/em> blog, Steve Cerra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stock in trade is&#151;logically enough&#151; profiles of musicians. He copiously illustrates them with photographs, album covers and sound clips and often adds personal reflections or anecdotes to enrich the mix. The lead story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lucky-Thompson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Lucky-Thompson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lucky Thompson\" width=\"150\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3090\" \/><\/a>that Steve put up today is about the late tenor and soprano saxophonist Lucky Thompson. <\/p>\n<p>Thompson worked in the 1940s and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc50s in Dizzy Gillespie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sextet and with the big bands of Billy Eckstine, Tom Talbert and Count Basie. Hank Jones, Oscar Pettiford and Milt Jackson were among the colleagues who cherished their relationship with Thompson. He made a notable impact on Benny Golson in the early 1950s as Golson formed his style. Half a century later, the young saxophonist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/04\/recent-listening-lucky-strikes-again.html\">Chris Byars<\/a> adopted Thompson as his model. <a href=\"http:\/\/jazzprofiles.blogspot.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Go here<\/a> for the <em>Jazz Profiles<\/em> post, which includes Steve\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s album cover photo essay to the tune of a gorgeous Thompson ballad. It also has Bob Porter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s informative notes about Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>While you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re visiting Cerraville, if you scroll down the left-hand column you will eventually come to Steve\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent posting of an essay I wrote some time ago to accompany the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Time-Signatures-Retrospective-Dave-Brubeck\/dp\/B00004S51G?_encoding=UTF8&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\">Time Signatures<\/a><\/em> box of CDs tracing Dave Brubeck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s career from his college days to the 1990s. It has a lot of reading and a lot of pictures. <\/p>\n<p>For video of Lucky Thompson in action in Paris in the late 1950s, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/04\/lucky-thompson-in-person.html\"target=\"_blank\">this <em>Rifftides<\/em> archive piece<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his Jazz Profiles blog, Steve Cerra\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stock in trade is&#151;logically enough&#151; profiles of musicians. He copiously illustrates them with photographs, album covers and sound clips and often adds personal reflections or anecdotes to enrich the mix. The lead story that Steve put up today is about the late tenor and soprano saxophonist Lucky Thompson. 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