Barbara Thompson
Barbara Thompson
Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE is an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. 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. Since 1967, she has been married to drummer Jon Hiseman of Colosseum...
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth27 July 1944
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Thanks to previous missions we think we know which measurements are vital for understanding the changes happening at Earth. They've done a lot of the hard work.
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We feel lucky to have (this program) in the county.
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LWS is kind of science with an edge.
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