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Son Of Red Blues / Brown Thursday
Neil Ardley, Ian Carr, Dave Gelly, Jon Hiseman, Henry Lowther, Barbara Thompson, Norma Winstone
Trunk Records•2007
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Barbara Thompson
Barbara Thompson
Barbara Thompson has been played on NTS shows including The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo, with Son Of Red Blues / Brown Thursday first played on 12 May 2023.
Barbara Thompson MBE (born Barbara Gracey in Oxford on 27 July 1944; died 9 July 2022) was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She also recorded as Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia, as Barbara Thompson Quartet, and as Barbara Thompson & The Medici Quartet. In addition, she recorded with United Jazz & Rock Ensemble, Colosseum, Keef Hartley Band, and Manfred Mann's Earth Band. . Thompson studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone.
Around 1975, she was involved in the foundation of three bands:
* the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, a 'band of bandleaders' with Wolfgang Dauner (p), Volker Kriegel (g), Albert Mangelsdorff (tb), Eberhard Weber (b), Ian Carr (tp), Charlie Mariano (sax), Ack van Rooyen (tp) and Jon Hiseman (dr). * Barbara Thompson’s Jubiaba (9 piece Latin/Rock band) including Peter Lemer, Roy Babbington, Henry Lowther, Ian Hamer, Derek Wadsworth, Trevor Tomkins, Bill Le Sage, Glyn Thomas. * Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia, her current working band with Peter Lemer (p), Billy Thompson (v) [1], Dave Ball (b) [2] and Jon Hiseman on drums.She was awarded the MBE in 1996 for services to music. Due to Parkinson's disease diagnosed in 1997, she retired as an active saxophonist in 2001 with a farewell tour. After a period of working as a composer exclusively, she returned to stage in 2004 to replace the unwell Dick Heckstall-Smith during Colosseum's "Tomorrow's Blues" tour, and in 2005 she performed live with Paraphernalia in their "Never Say Goodbye" tour.
She cooperated closely with Andrew Lloyd-Webber for musicals like Cats and Starlight Express and his requiem. She wrote several classical compositions, music for movies and TV, a musical of her own and songs for the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia and her big band Moving Parts.
Thompson was married to Colosseum drummer Jon Hiseman, from 1967 until his death in June 2018.
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Barbara Thompson
Barbara Thompson has been played on NTS shows including The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo, with Son Of Red Blues / Brown Thursday first played on 12 May 2023.
Barbara Thompson MBE (born Barbara Gracey in Oxford on 27 July 1944; died 9 July 2022) was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She also recorded as Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia, as Barbara Thompson Quartet, and as Barbara Thompson & The Medici Quartet. In addition, she recorded with United Jazz & Rock Ensemble, Colosseum, Keef Hartley Band, and Manfred Mann's Earth Band. . Thompson studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone.
Around 1975, she was involved in the foundation of three bands:
* the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, a 'band of bandleaders' with Wolfgang Dauner (p), Volker Kriegel (g), Albert Mangelsdorff (tb), Eberhard Weber (b), Ian Carr (tp), Charlie Mariano (sax), Ack van Rooyen (tp) and Jon Hiseman (dr). * Barbara Thompson’s Jubiaba (9 piece Latin/Rock band) including Peter Lemer, Roy Babbington, Henry Lowther, Ian Hamer, Derek Wadsworth, Trevor Tomkins, Bill Le Sage, Glyn Thomas. * Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia, her current working band with Peter Lemer (p), Billy Thompson (v) [1], Dave Ball (b) [2] and Jon Hiseman on drums.She was awarded the MBE in 1996 for services to music. Due to Parkinson's disease diagnosed in 1997, she retired as an active saxophonist in 2001 with a farewell tour. After a period of working as a composer exclusively, she returned to stage in 2004 to replace the unwell Dick Heckstall-Smith during Colosseum's "Tomorrow's Blues" tour, and in 2005 she performed live with Paraphernalia in their "Never Say Goodbye" tour.
She cooperated closely with Andrew Lloyd-Webber for musicals like Cats and Starlight Express and his requiem. She wrote several classical compositions, music for movies and TV, a musical of her own and songs for the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia and her big band Moving Parts.
Thompson was married to Colosseum drummer Jon Hiseman, from 1967 until his death in June 2018.
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