Charles Walton collection, ca. 1930s-1940s (inclusive).
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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...
Walton, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1920-2002
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Charles Walton was born on July 7, 1925 in Selma, Alabama. Walton died on March 30, 2005. From the description of Charles Walton collection, ca. 1930s-1940s (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 607336964 ...
University of Chicago. Chicago Jazz Archive
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Founded in 1976, the University of Chicago Library's Chicago Jazz Archive initially sought to preserve materials documenting the birth and early growth of jazz in Chicago. In partnership with the Jazz Institute of Chicago the collections grew significantly. Collections now detail more than eight decades of Chicago jazz life and history. Recordings, publications, photographs, articles, posters, programs, ticket stubs, and other ephemera of musicians, clubs, record companies, and jazz...
