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Lionel Hampton (1908), who had recorded the first vibraphone solo in october 1930 in Louis
Armstrong's version of Eubie Blake's Memories of You and who had
featured in Benny Goodman's inter-racial quartet (1936-38),
formed an orchestra that came to specialize in ebullient swing music at
the border with boogie-woogie and predating rhythm'n'blues.
Relying throughout his career on young lions such as alto saxophonist Earl
Bostic (1939),
tenor saxophonist Jean-Baptiste "Illinois" Jacquet (1941),
bassist Charlie Mingus (1947),
trumpeter Fats Navarro (1948),
trumpeter Quincy Jones (1951),
and trumpeter Clifford Brown (1953),
Hampton became a staple of the dancehall with
Jimmy McHugh's Sunny Side of the Street (april 1937),
his own Hot Mallets (september 1939), featuring tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Chu Berry as well as young trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie,
a version of Euday Bowman's Twelfth Street Rag (june 1939) highlighted by his frantic two-finger piano tour de force,
Down Home Jump (october 1938),
Central Avenue Breakdown (may 1940), on which he played piano accompanied by the Nat King Cole trio,
Flying Home (may 1942), originally recorded in november 1939 with Benny Goodman, but now featuring Jacquet's celebrated "honking" solo (the mother of all rhythm'n'blues saxophone solos),
Hamp's Boogie-Woogie (march 1944), written by the band's exuberant pianist, Milt Buckner,
and Hey Baba Rebop (january 1946).
Hampton also composed the four-movement symphonic King David Suite (1953).
Lionel Hampton died in 2002.
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