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Recordings of Lionel Hampton, 1997-04-19, 1997-06-27

 File — Container: Box 1, Folder: 1

Content Description

From the Collection:

5 Audio Tape Cassettes: Cassette I: Side A includes ambience recorded on site at the party held at the Soho home of portrait artist, Frederick Brown - 10 minutes in Ceremonial introductions and naming of important attendees: e.g. Congressman, Charles Rangel, Mayor R. Giuliani - 12 minutes in words by Brown and Hampton himself thanking people for coming - 18 minutes in accepting portrait into collection of the Smithsonian National Portrait Museum - 22 minutes in casual comments by Consul General of Austria SIDE A ends around 25 minutes

Side B Hampton himself - approximately 29 minutes NOTE: I, DB, forget where I interviewed LH (?? it was clearly not at the party... likely an office/hotel somewhere in New York City. ???) I am more or less off mic insofar as I was conducting the interview solo without an engineer and used only one microphone.

Topics in sequence: LH Talks briefly about the fire, his grandmother, childhood experiences, rudiments of drumming learned early, Dr. Swift, playing with Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman Quartet (first integrated band); pioneer on vibraphone (made out of metal, electric motor, pedal; “I took the goodness out of all sounds and put that into my music”; Flying Home popularity- citation - fit into all styles of music - a million + plays on the radio unusual for jazz; U of Idaho Festival and School of Music; importance of his wife, Gladys, to his career; grandfather’s association with Al Capone, favorite melodies - singing; How High the Moon. Perfection

Cassette II: DUB of the produced feature (as broadcast 6/23/97)

Cassette III: Dan Master taped interview with Dan Morgenstern - 5/30/1997

Cassette IV: DUB interview with Dr. Joshua Skinner 5/8/1997

Cassette V: DUB of the Master taped interview of Joshua Skinner 5/8/1997

2 REEL TO REEL Audio tapes

I: 7” Master Taped interview (done via telephone) with Dr. Joshua Skinner 5/8/1997

II: Reel to Reel dub of the actual produced feature as broadcast 6/29/97

Dates

  • Creation: 1997-04-19
  • Creation: 1997-06-27

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

The University of Idaho does not hold the copyright on materials in this collection. For permission to reproduce any portion of these materials for commercial purposes, please direct inquiries to the record creator. Contact Special Collections and Archives for more information.

Extent

1 folder : Cassettes I and II

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository