Lionel Hampton Papers circa1918-2002 1940-1990

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Lionel Hampton Papers circa1918-2002 1940-1990

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Lionel Hampton was a jazz vibraphonist, drummer,pianist, composer, and bandleader. The materials in this collection span most of hismusical career. The collection includes personal papers and business records,photographs, musical compositions, audiotape master recordings (in a variety offormats), and six musical instruments, including a vibraphone.

90 cubic feet, excluding a piano and avibraphone

University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives

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Hampton, Lionel

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Lionel Hampton was born in Louisville, Kentucky on April 20, 1908. He died on August 31, 2002 in New York City. He showed a talent for music at an early age and by high school, was playing drums with a jazz band organized by his employer, a newspaper called the Chicago Defender. Later, he attended classes in music theory at the University of Southern California and gained a reputation as a great drummer on the West Coast. In 1930, Louis Armstrong, when working for Les Hite’s band, a...

Hampton, Gladys

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