Barbara Thompson

Barbara Thompson (born Barbara Gracey, 27 July 1944 in Oxford) is an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer MBE.She 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)...