Lucky Thompson
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Eli (Lucky) Thompson (born in 1924) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.
After playing with the swing orchestras of Lionel Hampton, Don Redman, Billy Eckstine, Lucky Millinder, and Count Basie, he worked in rhythm and blues and then established a career in bop and hard bop, working with Kenny Clarke, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson. He lived in Lausanne Switzerland in the late 1960's and recorded several albums there including "A Lucky Songbook in Europe." He taught at Dartmouth College in 1973 and 1974, then left the music business. His last know location was in the Pacific Northwes