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Profile: Remembering Lionel Hampton, who died at the age of 94
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08-31-2002
Profile: Remembering Lionel Hampton, who died at the age of 94
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM
(Soundbite of jazz music)
SCOTT SIMON, host:
The music of Lionel Hampton. Early this morning, the giant of jazz died of heart failure in a New York hospital. He was 94 years old. Dean Olsher, of member station WNYC in New York, looks at the career of the man who made the jazz worl...
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