THOMPSON, ELI (LUCKY
). Jazz saxophonist ( in Detroit, Michigan). In his early career he toured as a tenor saxophonist with the
’Bama State Collegians
of Alabama State Teachers College in Montgomery, Alabama. He settled in New York during the early 1940s; thereafter he played with various groups, including Lionel Hampton,
Don Redman
,
William (Billy
) Eckstine
,
Lucius (Lucky
) Millinder
, and
William (Count
) Basie
, among others. During the...