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Living legend Lionel Hampton.
From:
Saturday Evening Post
| Date:
March 1, 1990| Author:
Stoddard, Maynard Good
| COPYRIGHT 1990 Saturday Evening Post Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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LIVING LEGEND LIONEL HAMPTON
After 60 years in the big band business, the "U.S. president of vibes" is putting his money where his heart is--endowing schools of music and erecting homes for low-income families.
One night in 1936, Benny Goodman took a tip from his brother-in-law, a jazz critic, and joined the audience at the Paradise Night Club, a little beer garden in Los Angeles. The noted attraction was a hot young jazz artist named Lionel Hampton, who had creat...
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