page_title: Lucky Thompson
hierarchical_section_title: Lucky Thompson
caption_attribution_description: Gottlieb, William P., 1917-, photographer. Lucky Thompson, Hilda A. Taylor, and Al McKibbon, Three Deuces, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1948&#x5d; 1 negative&#160;: b&amp;w&#160;; 4 x 5 in. Caption from Down Beat: Swing was born on Fifty-second Street. Devotees still go there for hot music. Here, at the Three Deuces, Hilda Taylor and a friend enjoy the Lucky Thompson orchestra. A former Miss North Carolina, she is now a professional singer. Notes: Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 482 Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress). In: Collier's, v. 122, no. 1 (July 3, 1948), p. 25. Subjects: Thompson, Lucky, 1924- Taylor, Hilda A. McKibbon, Al Lucky Thompson's All-Stars Jazz musicians--1940-1950. Saxophonists--1940-1950. Double bassists--1940-1950. Fifty-second Street (New York, N.Y.)--1940-1950. Three Deuces Format: Portrait photographs--1940-1950. Cityscape photographs--1940-1950. Film negatives--1940-1950. Rights Info: Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply. lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-copyrig... Repository: (negative) Library of Congress, Prints &amp; Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print (reference print) Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, loc.gov/rr/perform/ Part Of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (DLC) 99-401005 General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.08521 Call Number: LC-GLB13- 0852
context_page_description: Eli "Lucky" Thompson was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist whose playing combined elements of swing and bebop. While John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence in the early 1960s, Thompson embraced the instrument earlier than Coltrane.
context_section_description: Eli "Lucky" Thompson (June 16, 1924 – July 30, 2005) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist whose playing combined elements of swing and bebop. While John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence in the early 1960s, Thompson (along with Steve Lacy) embraced the instrument earlier than Coltrane.
caption: Al McKibbon, Lucky Thompson, and Hilda Taylor, Three Deuces, New York, 1947
  
  Photo: William P. Gottlieb
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