Lionel Hampton - Ultimate Jazz and Blues (2004)

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Title: Ultimate Jazz and Blues
Year Of Release: 2004
Label: Weton-Wesgram / Flex Media Entertainment
Genre: Jaz
Quality: FLAC (tracks+log+cue+artworks)
Total Time: 00:52:06
Total Size: 268 mb
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Tracklist:

01. Memories Of You
02. Mr. PC
03. Ring Dem Bells
04. I Know What You Know
05. Four Or Five Times
06. How High The Moon
07. Slide Hamp Slide
08. Playboy
09. Beulah's Sister Boogie
10. Cobb's Idea
11. Hamp's Boogie Woogie No. 1
12. Drum Stomp (Crazy Rhythm)
13. One Sweet Letter From You
14. I've Found A New Baby
15. Hamp's Boogie Woogie No. 2

Lionel Hampton was the first jazz vibraphonist and was one of the jazz giants beginning in the mid-'30s. 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 Newsboys' Band as a youth. His original idol was Jimmy Bertrand, a '20s drummer who occasionally played xylophone. Hampton played on the West Coast with such groups as Curtis Mosby's Blue 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, and 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.