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LIONEL HAMPTON; 1908-2002; `Towering jazz figure' broke American racial barriers
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LIONEL HAMPTON. 1908-2002. `Towering jazz figure' broke American
racial barriers
NEW YORK -- There wasmore than musical magic on stage that day in
1936 when Lionel Hampton joined Benny Goodman in a Manhattan ballroom
-- it was a breakthrough in American race relations.
Hampton, a vibraphone virtuoso who died Saturday, broke a barrier
that had kept black and white musicians from performing together in
public. Through a six-decade career, he continued to build a name for
himself as one of the greats in jazz history.
"He was really a towering jazz figure," saidsaxophonist Sonny
Rollins, who ...
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