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| 1. | Flying Home
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| 2. | Je Ne Sais Pas
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| 3. | On the Sunny Side of the Street
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| 4. | April in Paris
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| 5. | Don't Be That Way
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| 6. | These Foolish Things
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| 7. | The Way You Look Tonight
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| 8. | It's Only a Paper Moon
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Jazz / Swing
Recorded:
April 1954 at Fine Sound, New York City: track 4 on April 12; tracks 1–3 and 5–8 on April 13. Tracks 1–4 original-LP issue: The Lionel Hampton Quintet Clef MGC-628. Tracks 5–8 original-LP issue: The Lionel Hampton Quintet Album #2 Clef MGC-642
Lionel Hampton (1-7) Vibraphone
Buddy DeFranco (1-3, 5-8) Clarinet
Oscar Peterson Piano
Ray Brown Bass
Buddy Rich Drums
Norman Granz Producer
Lionel Hampton is the man who made the vibraphone safe for jazz. He is also the only major jazz instrumentalist to be active in nine decades, from the 1920s (he first recorded in 1929) all the way into the new millennium. His career is filled with highlights, but this date from 1954 is one of his best.
On the surface, the combination of clarinet, vibraphone, and rhythm recalls Hampton’s work with the classic Benny Goodman small groups of the 1930s. But this is not simply a recreation of past glories. It is a timeless no-holds-barred jam session, featuring extended solos, duels, and jousts, with Hampton supported by an amazing ensemble that has a personality all its own: Buddy DeFranco, the foremost jazz clarinetist of the modern era, and the driving rhythm section of Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, and Buddy Rich.
In 1954, producer Norman Granz held a couple of marathon recording sessions featuring vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, pianist Oscar Peterson, bassist Ray Brown, drummer Buddy Rich and (on Apr. 13) clarinetist Buddy DeFranco. This set has three selections from the DeFranco date (a sidelong "Flying Home," the original "Je Ne Se Pas" and "On the Sunny Side of the Street") and one from the earlier session ("April in Paris"). Hampton is typically exuberant throughout, grunting rather loudly during a few later ensemble choruses on "Flying Home"; DeFranco and Peterson are as swinging as usual, and the overall music is quite joyous. Even if "Flying Home" does not reach Granz's claim of being the best-ever version of the song (one misses the honking tenor and screaming trumpet), this is an excellent and rather spontaneous outing.
---Scott Yanow, allmusic
Includes original liner notes by Norman Granz and reissue liner notes by Brian Priestly. |
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