![]() Following a two-year stint in the Army, during which he toured as a drummer with the “All Army Talent Show,” Thompson released Safari of One, an Afro-Cuban Percussion Album. He later recalled immediately getting “hopelessly hooked on mambo.”Īfter high school, Thompson enrolled at Yale, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in 1955. ![]() On a trip to Mexico during his senior year of prep school, he first heard mambo, a propulsive fusion of swing, jazz, and Cuban ballroom music. His father was a surgeon, and his mother, a local arts patron, gave him his first lessons in art history. ![]() Thompson was born in 1932 in El Paso, Texas. Bakhyt Bubikanova, Kazakh Artist on the Rise, Dies at 38 ![]()
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