Jazz : Lionel Hampton - In the Mood

Lionel Hampton is one of the most extraordinary musicians of the 20th century and his artistic achievements symbolize the impact that jazz music has had on our culture in the 21st century.

He was born April 20, 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Charles Hampton, a promising pianist and singer, was reported missing and later declared killed in World War I. Lionel and his mother, Gertrude, first moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to be with her family, then settled in Chicago.

He attended the Holy Rosary Academy, near Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a Dominican sister give him his first drum lessons.

Later, while attending St. Monica's School in Chicago, Lionel got a job selling papers in order to join the Chicago Defender's Newsboys Band. At first, he helped carry the bass drum, and later played the snare drum.

While in high school, Les Hite gave Lionel a job in a teenage band. Later, the 15-year-old Lionel, who had just graduated from high school, promised his grandmother he would continue to say his daily prayers and left for Los Angeles to join Reb Spikes's Sharps and Flats. He also played with Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders and a new band organized by Hite, which backed Louis Armstrong at the Cotton Club...
http://contentdm.lib.uidaho.edu/hampton_collection/bio.html

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Lionel Hampton (Louisville, Kentucky, 1909? - Nueva York, 2002) Músico estadounidense, uno de los instrumentistas más polifacéticos y longevos de la historia del jazz. Auténtica leyenda del género, en la biografía de Lionel Hampton, repleta de episodios míticos, pueden rastrearse muchos de los tópicos que el gran público asocia a la figura del jazzman: intuición, virtuosismo o talento innato. Y sus interpretaciones forman parte del imaginario colectivo de los amantes del género.

Lionel Hampton nació un 20 de abril, en el seno de una familia relativamente acomodada. Curiosamente, no se sabe a ciencia cierta en qué año: según algunas fuentes, en 1908; según otras, en 1909. Pero nadie ha podido nunca esclarecer qué fecha es la correcta, ni siquiera el propio músico...
http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/h/hampton.htm

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Sorry Lionel for justin bieber, anna montana and the johnas brothers...

go, make the angels flying happy with your hands