Barbara Thompson

As both bandleader and collaborator, British saxophonist and flutist Barbara Thompson for decades was a key contributor to cutting-edge jazz and jazz-rock ensembles based in her home country as well as continental Europe. With a classical music education at the Royal College of Music, Thompson was nevertheless attracted to the world of jazz, joining Neil Ardley's New Jazz Orchestra in the mid-‘60s, where she met Colosseum drummer Jon Hiseman, whom she married in 1967. (Thompson also performed and recorded with Colosseum on occasion, and she became a permanent member of the gro...