a respected English saxophonist, flutist, and composer who collaborated with a wide range of musicians—from Eberhard Weber to Andrew Lloyd Webber—over a career that spanned six decades, died July 9. She had been battling Parkinson’s disease for a quarter-century. In 1967, a time when female saxophonists were practically unheard of in England, Thompson married drummer Jon Hiseman and subsequently became a part of his jazz-rock band Colosseum (their marriage continued until Hiseman’s death in 2018). She co-founded two long-lasting groups, the United
