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LIONEL HAMPTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA
LIONEL
THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE LP ON THE AUDIO FIDELITY LABEL. THE RECORD IS MINT; THE SLEEVE HAS A TINY CORNER CUT TO BOTTOM LEFT, OTHERWISE IT IS ALSO MINT.
A DECENT SMALL-GROUP LP FROM 1957, THIS SET DOES NOT LIST THE PERSONNEL, DESPITE THE LENGTHY LINER NOTES. HOWEVER, THE MUSIC FEATURES THE GREAT VIBRAPHONIST WITH A SEXTET WHICH INCLUDES BOBBY PLATER ON REEDS, OSCAR DENNARD ON PIANO AND BILLY MACKEL PLAYING GUITAR.
THE CATALOGUE NUMBER OF THIS UNPLAYED LP IS: AFSD 5849.
TRACK LISTING:
SIDE 1:
Just One Of Those Things (Cole Porter); Lazy Thoughts (Lionel Hampton, Delaney, Frey); The Man I Love (George Gershwin); One Step From Heaven (Lionel Hampton, Frey); Darn That Dream (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen); Stardust (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parrish).
SIDE 2:
Tracking Problem (Lionel Hampton, Frey); Lullaby Of Birdland (George Shearing); Blues For Stephen (Lionel Hampton, Delaney, Frey); And The Angels Sing (Ziggy Ellman, Johnny Mercer); Love Is Here To Stay (George Gershwin); I Know That You Know (Otto Harbach, Bobby Caldwell, Vincent Youmans).
This rare and highly-collectable LP contains swinging renditions of both standards and ballads.
Since it is doubtful that this material will be reissued on CD any time soon, it is well worth picking up, especially in this superb condition.
Lionel Hampton was the first jazz vibraphonist and has been one of the jazz giants since the mid-1930s. He has achieved the difficult feat of being musically open-minded (even recording 'Giant Steps') without changing his basic swing style.
Hamp started out as a drummer, playing with the Chicago Defender Newsboy's Band as a youth. His original idol was Jimmy Bertrand, a 1920s drummer who occasionally played xylophone. Hampton played on the West Coast with such groups as Curtis Mosby's Blues Blowers, Reb Spikes and Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders [with whom he made his recording debut in 1929] before joining Les Hite's band which for a period accompanied Louis Armstrong.
At a recording session in 1930, a vibraphone happened to be in the studio. Armstrong asked Hampton [who had practiced on one previously] if he could play a little bit behind him and on Memories Of You and Shine. Hamp became the first jazz improviser to record on vibes.
It would be another six years before he found fame. After leaving Les Hite, he had his own band in Los Angeles' Paradise Cafe until one night in 1936 when Benny Goodman came into the club and discovered him. Soon Hamp recorded with B.G., Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa as the Benny Goodman Quartet and six weeks he officially joined Goodman.
An exciting soloist whose enthusiasm even caused BG to smile, Hampton became one of the stars of his organization, appearing in films with Goodman, playing with him at the famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert, and nightly on the radio.
In 1937 he started recording regularly for Victor with specially assembled all-star groups that formed a who's who of swing.
Hampton stayed with Goodman until 1940, sometimes substituting on drums and taking vocals. In 1940 Lionel Hampton formed his first big band and in 1942 he had a huge hit with Flying Home featuring a classic Illinois Jacquet tenor spot [one of the first R&B solos].
During the remainder of the decade, Hampton's extroverted orchestra was a big favourite, leaning towards R&B and showing the influence of bebop after 1944 and sometimes getting fairly exhibitionistic. Among his sidemen in addition to Jacquet were Arnett Cobb, Dinah Washington [who Hampton helped to discover], Cat Anderson, Marshall Royal, Dexter Gordon, Milt Buckner, Earl Bostic, Snooky Young, Johnny Griffin, Joe Wilder, Benny Bailey, Charles Mingus, Fats Navarro, Al Grey and even Wes Montgomery and Betty Carter.
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