Released 1954 Release date 1954 Label Universal Music LLC | Artist Lionel Hampton Producer Norman Granz Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded April 12-13, 1954 at Fine Sound, New York City The Lionel Hampton Quintet
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The Lionel Hampton Quintet is a 1954 album by Lionel Hampton accompanied by a quintet including clarinetist Buddy DeFranco.
Contents
The album was reissued by Verve Records in 1999, with four extra tracks.
Reception
Scott Yanow reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "...Hampton is typically exuberant throughout (grunting rather loudly during a few later ensemble choruses on "Flying Home"), DeFranco and Peterson are as swinging as usual, and the overall music is quite joyous. Even if "Flying Home" does not reach Granz's claim of being the best-ever version of the song (one misses the honking tenor and screaming trumpet), this is an excellent and rather spontaneous outing."
Track listing
- "Flying Home" (Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Sydney Robin) - 17:11
- "Je Ne Sais Pas" (Hampton) - 6:33
- "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 5:52
- "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) - 6:25
- "Don't Be That Way" (Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) - 9:28
- "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) - 8:36
- "The Way You Look Tonight" (Fields, Jerome Kern) - 11:14
- "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen, Harburg, Billy Rose) - 6:48
Personnel
Songs
1Flying Home17:12
2Je Ne Sais Pas6:33
3On The Sunny Side Of The Street5:52
References
The Lionel Hampton Quintet Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA