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African Liberation Month Notes! Pan Africanism in the Music! a Lucky Thompson's son Daryl Thompson is playing lead guitar on the video. Daryl played with Word, Sound & Power & Black Uhuru. Eli "Lucky" Thompson (June 16, 1924 — July 30, 2005)[1] was a United States jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. 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 did Coltrane. After playing with the swing orchestras of Lionel Hampton, Don Redman, Billy Eckstine (alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker), Lucky Millinder, and Count Basie, he worked in rhythm and blues and then established a career in bebop and hard bop, working with Kenny Clarke, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Milt Jackson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27buOsCaCxE
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