Barbara Thompson
As both bandleader and collaborator, British saxophonist and flutist Barbara Thompson for decades was a key contributor to cutting-edge jazz and jazz-rock ensembles based in her home country as well as continental Europe. With a classical music education at the Royal College of Music, Thompson was nevertheless attracted to the world of jazz, joining Neil Ardley’s New Jazz Orchestra in the mid-‘60s, where she met Colosseum drummer Jon Hiseman, whom she married in 1967. (Thompson also performed and recorded with Colosseum on occasion, and she became a permanent member of the group in 2004.) During the 1970s, Thompson joined the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble (a ten-piece band also featuring Wolfgang Dauner, Ian Carr, Kenny Wheeler, Albert Mangelsdorff, Charlie Mariano, and Hiseman) and formed her own jazz-rock outfit, Paraphernalia, as well as a Latin-flavored ensemble, Jubiaba.
Thompson’s recordings ran the gamut from jazz-rock fusion and modern creative jazz to world and folk musics and even modern classical, and she also composed music for theater productions (beginning a working relationship with Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1978) and for film and television soundtracks. In 1996, Thompson was awarded the rank of MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) for services to music. Thompson was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1997, but she continued to record and tour into the new millennium while devoting much of her energies to composing. Her albums during the 2000s included two releases on Intuition, Barbara Thompson and Friends' In the Eye of a Storm (2003) and Paraphernalia’s Never Say Goodbye (2007). Barbara Thompson died on July 9, 2022 after living with Parkinson’s disease for 25 years; she was 77 years of age.
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Discografia
16 álbum(ns) • Ordenado por Mais vendidos
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Bulletproof
Barbara Thompson, National Youth Jazz Orchestra
Contemporary Jazz - Lançado por NYJO em 04/06/2021
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Songs From The Center Of The Earth
Jazz - Lançado por Black Sun Music em 01/08/1990
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In the Eye of a Storm
Jazz - Lançado por intuition em 30/09/2003
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Mother Earth
Jazz - Lançado por intuition em 01/01/1982
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A Cry from the Heart - Live in London
Jazz - Lançado por intuition em 01/11/1987
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Never Say Goodbye
Bebop - Lançado por intuition em 01/02/2007
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Thompson's Tangos and Other Soft Dances
Jazz - Lançado por intuition em 01/01/1991
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Lady Saxophone
Jazz - Lançado por intuition em 01/04/1996
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Shifting Sands
Jazz - Lançado por intuition em 16/11/1999
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Everlasting Flame
Jazz - Lançado por intuition em 01/01/1993
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Heavenly Bodies
Jazz - Lançado por intuition em 01/08/1986
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Mirages
Barbara Thompson, Tetraphonics Saxophone Quartet, Marion Koehler
Classical - Lançado por Temple Music em 12/01/2018
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In Memory
Barbara Thompson, National Youth Jazz Orchestra
Contemporary Jazz - Lançado por NYJO em 21/05/2021
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Hero's Return
Barbara Thompson, National Youth Jazz Orchestra
Contemporary Jazz - Lançado por NYJO em 28/05/2021
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