The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival took over the University of Idaho campus in Moscow this week, with nearly every building bustling with young musicians. These aspiring jazz musicians attend workshops ...

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles High School jazz band placed second at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. The event this past weekend was at the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of ...

NEW YORK -- The remains of jazz great Lionel Hampton were carried in a white horse-drawn hearse through the streets of Harlem on Saturday, with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis blowing a dirge to lead the ...

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Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 – August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, ...

Lionel Hampton, 94, the frenetic jazz vibraphonist, gifted bandleader and storied showman who was one of the most celebrated musicians of the swing era and went on to a six-decade career on the ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 -- -- Jazz icon Lionel Hampton was laid to rest in New York today with his old friend George Bush, the former president, saying that "to know Lionel is to know joy." Hampton, who ...

NEW YORK — There was more than musical magic on stage that day in 1936 when Lionel Hampton joined Benny Goodman in a Manhattan ball room — it was a breakthrough in American race relations. Hampton, a ...

You can read this quote by Lionel Hampton from his autobiography, Hamp (1989), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more quotes from Hampton here. Suggested Reading 50 Cent Just Revealed He ...