Barbara Thompson
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Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE (born 27 July 1944) is an English jazz saxophonist.
At the Royal College of Music, she studied saxophone and classical composition, but Duke Ellington and John Coltrane's music piqued her interest in jazz and saxophone.
Jon Heeman, a guitarist from 1967 to his death in 2018.
Personal life
Thompson was married to Colosseum drummer Jon Hiseman from 1967 to his death in June 2018. Marcus and his mother Anna (now known as singer/songwriter Ana Gracey) were born in 1972 and 1975.
Thompson died on July 9, 2022, at the age of 77, after suffering Parkinson's disease for 25 years.
Career
Around 1970, Thompson was part of Neil Ardley's New Jazz Orchestra and appeared on albums by Colosseum. Beginning in 1975, she was involved in the foundation of three bands:
She was awarded the MBE in 1996 for services to music. Due to Parkinson's disease, which was diagnosed in 1997, she retired as an active saxophonist in 2001 with a farewell tour. After a period of working as a composer exclusively, she returned to the stage in 2003 for a tour with Colosseum.
After she was hospitalised with atrial fibrillation, her attendance in an accident and emergency department was featured in an episode of the Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall television documentary 24 Hours in A&E in October 2020.
Thompson worked closely with Andrew Lloyd Webber on musicals such as Cats and Starlight Express, his Requiem, and Lloyd Webber's 1978 classical-fusion album Variations. She wrote several classical compositions, music for film and television, a musical of her own and songs for the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia and her big band Moving Parts. She was a regular, along with her husband drummer Jon Hiseman and bassist David 'Dill' Katz in the underground 'Cellar Bar' at South Hill Park Arts Centre in Bracknell during the late 1970s and 1980s.
She played the incidental music in the ITV police series A Touch of Frost starring David Jason. She also played flute on Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.