Lionel Hampton - Jazz Indispensable (2001)

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Artist: Lionel Hampton
Title: Jazz Indispensable
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: RCA Victor [7432 184190 2]
Genre: Jazz, Swing
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 63:43
Total Size: 246 MB(+3%) | 151 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1 Buzzin' Around with the Bee (3:05)
2 Stompology (2:57)
3 On the Sunny Side of the Street (3:12)
4 I'm Cofessin' (That I Love You) (3:23)
5 Piano Stomp (Shine) (2:53)
6 Everybody Loves My Baby (3:14)
7 Ring dem Bells (3:19)
8 Don't Be That Way (2:31)
9 I'm in the Mood for Swing (2:44)
10 Shoes Shiner's Drag (3:19)
11 Muskrat Ramble (3:12)
12 Down Home Jump (3:12)
13 It Don't Mean a Thing (3:11)
14 Shufflin' at the Hollywood (3:01)
15 Denison Swing G (3:11)
16 Ain'tcha Comin' Home (3:14)
17 Twelfth Street Rag (3:05)
18 When Lights Are Low (2:10)
19 One Sweet Letter from You (3:16)
20 Hot Mallets (2:13)
21 Early Sessi on Hop (2:36)

Lionel Hampton - Jazz Indispensable (2001)

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.
It would be another six years before he found fame. Lionel Hampton, after leaving Hite, 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, Hampton recorded with B.G., Teddy Wilson, and Gene Krupa as the Benny Goodman Quartet, and six weeks later he officially joined Goodman. An exciting soloist whose enthusiasm even caused B.G. to smile, Hampton became one of the stars of his organization, appearing in films with Goodman, at the famous 1938 Carnegie Hall concert, and nightly on the radio. In 1937, he started recording regularly as a leader for Victor with specially assembled all-star groups that formed a who's who of swing; all of these timeless performances (1937-1941) were reissued by Bluebird on a six-LP set, although in piecemeal fashion on CD.

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