Author: LUCKY THOMPSON

Format: Best of

PartNumber: 6 3 01598232

Release Date: 02-02-2018

Details: Amazon.ca Lucky Thompson was able to straddle older and newer jazz schools, and on Modern Jazz Group five progressive scores for 10 men are balanced by four more traditional quartet performances. In the latter his expansive improvisations on three standards and "Tight Squeeze" (a fast original) are backed by a competent trio under the leadership of Henri Renaud. The larger band also features Renaud, this time as composer and arranger as well as pianist, and some excellent solos by trumpeter Roger Guerin. Other soloists are William Boucaya on baritone and Renaud himself but naturally Thompson is heard above all. His style was never easy to pigeonhole, which had caused to some extent his difficulties in finding work at home in the USA. These sessions were recorded in 1956 at the beginning of his six-year stay in Paris and they make it clear, even at such an early stage, that the French jazz fraternity were happy to welcome him and that his music was going to flourish in these new surroundings. --Graham Colombé.

UPC: 601215982329

EAN: 0601215982329

Model: 6 3 01598232

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood