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1944-45 Broadcasts

Label: Soundcraft
Released: 2002
Track listing: Overtime; (I Guess) I

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Article: Album Review

Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra: 1944-45 Broadcasts

Read "1944-45 Broadcasts" reviewed by Jack Bowers


LIonel Hampton, the first musician to establish the vibraphone as a viable component of Jazz instrumentation, was (with Red Norvo) one of its acknowledged monarchs when these air–check performances were recorded in 1944–45, mostly for the benefit of U.S. servicemen at home and abroad. Hamp was a product of the Swing Era and his bands always ...


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