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Lionel Hampton Center - University of Idaho VHS20006.33 minutesThe Lionel Hampton Center, is an international center for the study and performance of Jazz. The Center serves to unite the… More...

Lionel Hampton Center - University of Idaho VHS20006.33 minutesThe Lionel Hampton Center, is an international center for the study and performance of Jazz. The Center serves to unite the University of Idaho's Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Lionel Hampton School of Music, and the International Jazz Collections in a state-of-the-art education and performance facility. The project was completed in 2007.The Music Room has been specially designed for the performance needs of jazz ---------------------------Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.Lionel Hampton was born in 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised by his mother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off-limits because of racial segregation. During the 1920s, while still a teenager, Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and began to play drums. Hampton was raised Roman Catholic, and started out playing fife and drum at the Holy Rosary Academy near Chicago.Lionel Hampton began his career playing drums for the Chicago Defender Newsboys' Band (led by Major N. Clark Smith) while still a teenager in Chicago. He moved to California in 1927 or 1928, playing drums for the Dixieland Blues-Blowers. He made his recording debut with The Quality Serenaders led by Paul Howard, then left for Culver City and drummed for the Les Hite band at Sebastian's Cotton Club. One of his trademarks as a drummer was his ability to do stunts with multiple pairs of sticks such as twirling and juggling without missing a beat. During this period he began practicing on the vibraphone. In 1930 Louis Armstrong came to California and hired the Les Hite band, asking Hampton if he would play vibes on two songs. So began his career as a vibraphonist, popularizing the use of the instrument in the process. Invented ten years earlier, the vibraphone is essentially a xylophone with metal bars, a sustain pedal, and resonators equipped with electric-powered fans that add tremolo.While working with the Les Hite band, Hampton also occasionally did some performing with Nat Shilkret and his orchestra. During the early 1930s, he studied music at the University of Southern California. In 1934 he led his own orchestra, and then appeared in the Bing Crosby film Pennies From Heaven (1936) alongside Louis Armstrong (wearing a mask in a scene while playing drums).Also in November 1936, the Benny Goodman Orchestra came to Los Angeles to play the Palomar Ballroom. When John Hammond brought Goodman to see Hampton perform, Goodman invited him to join his trio, which soon became the Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa completing the lineup. The Trio and Quartet were among the first racially integrated jazz groups to perform before audiences, and were a leading small-group of the day.While Hampton worked for Goodman in New York, he recorded with several different small groups known as the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, as well as assorted small groups within the Goodman band. In 1940 Hampton left the Goodman organization under amicable circumstances to form his own big band.Hampton's orchestra developed a high-profile during the 1940s and early 1950s. His third recording with them in 1942 produced the version of "Flying Home", featuring a solo by Illinois Jacquet that anticipated rhythm & blues. Although Hampton first recorded "Flying Home" under his own name with a small group in 1940 for Victor, the best known version is the big band version recorded for Decca on May 26, 1942, in a new arrangement by Hampton's pianist Milt Buckner. The 78pm disc became successful enough for Hampton to record "Flyin' Home #2" in 1944, this time a feature for Arnett Cobb. The song went on to become the theme song for all three men. Guitarist Billy Mackel first joined Hampton in 1944, and would perform and record with him almost continuously through to the late 1970s. In 1947, Hamp performed "Stardust" at a "Just Jazz" concert for producer Gene Norman, also featuring Charlie Shavers and Slam Stewart; the recording was issued by Decca. Later, Norman's GNP Crescendo label issued the remaining tracks from the concert.From the mid-1940s until the early 1950s, Hampton led a lively rhythm & blues band whose Decca Records recordings included numerous young performers who later had significant careers. They included bassist Charles Mingus, saxophonist Johnny Griffin, guitarist Wes Montgomery, and vocalist Dinah Washington. Other noteworthy band members were trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Cat Anderson, Kenny Dorham, and Snooky Young; trombonist Jimmy Cleveland, and saxophonists Jerome Richardson and Curtis Lowe.The Hampton orchestra that toured Europe in 1953 included Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Anthony Ortega, Monk Montgomery, George Wallington, Art Farmer, Quincy Jones, and singer Annie Ross. Hampton continued to record with small groups and jam sessions during the 1940s and 1950s, with Oscar Peterson, Buddy DeFranco, and others. In 1955, while in California working on The Benny Goodman Story he recorded with Stan Getz and made two albums with Art Tatum for Norman Granz as well as with his own big band.Hampton performed with Louis Armstrong and Italian singer Lara Saint Paul at the 1968 Sanremo Music Festival in Italy. The performance created a sensation with Italian audiences, as it broke into a real jazz session. That same year, Hampton received a Papal Medal from Pope Paul VI.During the 1960s, Hampton's groups were in decline; he was still performing what had succeeded for him earlier in his career. He did not fare much better in the 1970s, though he recorded actively for his Who's Who in Jazz record label, which he founded in 1977/1978.Beginning in February 1984, Hampton and his band played at the University of Idaho's annual jazz festival, which was renamed the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival the following year. In 1987 the UI's school of music was renamed for Hampton, the first university music school named for a jazz musician.1987 Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the University of Idaho UI's School of Music renamed "Lionel Hampton School of Music."Hampton remained active until a stroke in Paris in 1991 led to a collapse on stage. That incident, combined with years of chronic arthritis, forced him to cut back drastically on performances. However, he did play at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2001 shortly before his death.Hampton died from congestive heart failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, on August 31, 2002. He was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York. His funeral was held on September 7, 2002, and featured a performance by Wynton Marsalis and David Ostwald's Gully Low Jazz Band at Riverside Church in Manhattan; the procession began at The Cotton Club in Harlem., 2000, 3, Los Angeles.: Bongo Productions., 2000. Reggae African Caribbean World Music. 72pp, photographs. This issue includes: Afrobeat Renaissance, Fela & Femi Kuti, etc.. Magazine.. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Bongo Productions., 2000, 3, Los Angeles.: Bongo Productions., 1991. Reggae African Caribbean World Music. 84pp, photographs. This issue includes: Thomas Mapfumo, Rasta Renaissance, etc.. Magazine.. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Bongo Productions., 1991, 3, Los Angeles.: Bongo Productions., 1987. 51pp, features & reviews, photographs. This issue features Sugar Minott, Frankie Paul, Youssou N'Dour, & more. A couple of pages have a little ink underling.. Magazine.. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Bongo Productions., 1987, 3, Los Angeles.: Bongo Productions., 1990. Reggae African Caribbean World Music. 68pp, photographs. This issue includes: Dance Hall '90 The New York Groove, Tabou Combo, 3 Mustaphas 3, etc. Magazine.. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Bongo Productions., 1990, 3, HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, 1996. Some edgewear and creasing of spine otherwise still a good reading copy. From the back cover:"By becoming the right-hand man of legendary Hells Angels leader Sonny Barger, Anthony Tait learned all of the club’s dirtiest secrets. As the eyes and ears of an elaborate FBI undercover sting, he exposed some of the club’s “brothers” for what they really are—ruthless businessmen who will commit any crime for money, vicious thugs who: Take murder contracts out on informers Run a multimillion-dollar international drug ring that peddles speed and cocaine Use fear, intimidation, and severe beatings to keep other members in line Manipulate the legal system with high-priced lawyers when charges are brought against them Steal from each other, spy on each other—and sometimes even kill each other Hells Angels: Into the Abyss strips away the romantic myth of the lovable bad boys and takes you inside the organization’s netherworld of evil, lust, and violence. Both a chilling true-crime story and a warning about a growing threat to our cities, it will forever change the way you look at this dangerous biker club.". Mass Market Paperback. Good., HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, 1996, 2.5, Insomniac Pr. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2000. Paperback. 1895837146 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Minor rubbing to top of front cover. ; 9.0 X 5.8 X 0.4 inches; 96 pages ., Insomniac Pr, 2000, 4, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Insomniac Press. Good with no dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Softcover. 1895837146 . A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. PO name in ink on ffep. ; Minor edgewear at top spine. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall ., Insomniac Press, 2000, 2.5, McGraw-Hill Companies, The, 1977. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., McGraw-Hill Companies, The, 1977, 3, Los Angeles.: Bongo Productions., 2001. Reggae African Caribbean World Music. 72pp, photographs. This issue includes: Baaba Maal, Mento etc.. Magazine.. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall., Bongo Productions., 2001, 3, Orion, UK, 2005. Trade Paperback. Fair. Trade Paperback. 406 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Orion, UK, 2005. *** CONDITION: Fair ... Covers have moderate creasing. Corners of covers are moderately bumped. Spine has moderate lean and heavy reading creases. Edges of pages are mildly foxed. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln car, travelling between the courthouses of Los Angeles county to take whatever cases the system throws in their path. Mickey Haller has been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it, how to grease the right wheels and palms, to keep the engine of justice working in his favour. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and he is sure this is going to be a slam-dunk. He might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But as Haller knows, criminal cases can turn on a dime; when his case starts to fall apart and neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem, Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Crime; ISBN: 0752872915. ISBN/EAN: 9780752872919. Inventory No: 21010427.. 9780752872919, Orion, 2005, 2, Henry Holt and Company, USA, 2006. Medium Trade Paperback. As New. Medium Trade Paperback. 138 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Henry Holt and Company, USA, 2006. *** CONDITION: As New ... Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. This book is an unread copy. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Bad guys tremble at the sound of his name! Meet Melvin Beederman. He's a pretty good superhero, even though it always takes him five or six tries to get launched and flying. His weakness (every superhero has one) is bologna, which makes it hard to go into a deli. Still, Melvin manages to keep the city of Los Angeles free of nasty villains--once he's airborne. "Crash! Splat! Thud! Kabonk!" This series has it all: hilarious story lines, amazing classic-comic-inspired illustrations, fearless new superheroes, and SNACKS! Bad guys tremble at the sound of his name! Melvin loves fighting crime in Los Angeles, until the McNasty Brothers, the baddest guys of all, start robbing banks--and Melvin's superpowers mysteriously disappear. Enter Candace, a third-grade actress with some surprising new talents. Once they team up, nothing can beat these partners in uncrime. Nothing but bologna, that is . . . *** Quantity Available: 15. Category: Children & Young Adult; Teenage Fiction; Children. ISBN: 0805078363. ISBN/EAN: 9780805078367. Inventory No: 10010177.. 9780805078367, Henry Holt and Company, 2006, 5, Orion, Great Britain, 2005. Softcover. Very Good Condition. They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln car, travelling between the courthouses of Los Angeles county to take whatever cases the system throws in their path. Mickey Haller has been in the business a long time, and he knows just how to work it, how to grease the right wheels and palms, to keep the engine of justice working in his favour. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying client in years. The evidence mounts on the defence's side, and he is sure this is going to be a slam-dunk. He might even be in the rare position of defending a client who is actually innocent. But as Haller knows, criminal cases can turn on a dime; when his case starts to fall apart and neither the suspect nor the victim are quite who they seem, Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey. 404 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction::Crime Fiction; United States; Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0752872915. ISBN/EAN: 9780752872919. Inventory No: 257547.. 9780752872919, Orion, 2005, 3, Holt Paperbacks, 2008. Prerelease version. From Starred Review. Stirring and beautifully crafted, this debut novel recounts how the repercussions of a girl's disappearance can last for decades. In 1984, Kate Meaney is a 10-year-old loner who solves imaginary mysteries and guesses the dark secrets of the shoppers she observes at the Green Oaks mall. Kate's unlikely circle includes her always-present stuffed monkey; 22-year-old Adrian, who works at the candy shop next door; and Kate's classmate, Teresa Stanton, who hides her intelligence behind disruptive behavior. Kate's grandmother has plans for Kate: send her to boarding school. But Kate doesn't want to go. forward to 2003, where it's revealed through Lisa, Adrian's sister, that Kate disappeared nearly 20 years ago, and Adrian, blamed in her disappearance, also vanished. Lisa works at a record store in Green Oaks and is drawn to Kurt, a security guard whose surveillance-camera sightings of a little girl clutching a stuffed monkey hint that he might have ties to Kate's disappearance. Teresa, meanwhile, now a detective, has her own reasons for being haunted by Kate's disappearance. Gripping to the end, the is both a chilling mystery and a poignant examination of the effects of loss and loneliness. (July) ¬ Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review: "What Was Lost is a terrific, wonderful and I loved every page of it."-Douglas Coupland, author of The Gum Thief "An off-beat quirky little mystery which punches way above its weight. Set in Birmingham in the mid-eighties, adolescent loner Kate aspires to be a great detective, spending days on stake-out at her local shopping centre. The narrative then jumps 20 years, when the ghost of a little girl starts appearing in service corridors. The author's achingly astute observations on consumerism make this far more than a generic mystery and the icing on the cake is a twist in the tail which I really didn't see coming."-Marian Keyes, author of Anybody Out There and Angels "What Was Lost is a delight to read-poignant, suspenseful, funny and smart. . . . [It] is a moving novel, bespeaking not only the energy and inventiveness of its author but also the power of good old realism."-Jane Smiley, LA Times Sunday Review "The bravest and most appealing adolescent this side of The Lovely Bones, aspiring detective Kate Meaney vanishes partway through Catherine O'Flynn's mesmerizing debut novel, What Was Lost. . . There are many ways to feel invisible, we learn from this gentle, sharp-sighted tale of love and loneliness. And there are many ways to be found."-O, The Oprah Magazine "Engrossing. . . With a sure hand for both suspense and satire, O'Flynn is a masterful writer, and her a delicious mash-up of Nancy Drew and High Fidelity-teary and tart in the right proportions."-Marie Claire "At once moving and wickedly funny, [What Was Lost] is one dazzling debut."-People (four stars). Paperback. New., Holt Paperbacks, 2008, 6, Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2017. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. Los Angeles can be a dangerous city - never more so than in the dead of night. Renee Ballard works the night shift at the LAPD in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a prostitute left for dead in a parking lot and the killing of a young woman in a nightclub shooting. Ballard is determined not to give up at dawn. Against orders and her own partner's wishes, she works both cases by day while maintaining her shift by night. As the cases entwine, they pull her closer to her own demons and the reason she won't give up her job - no matter what the department throws at her. 405 pages. Light tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction::Crime Fiction; Crime Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9781760630782. Inventory No: 257505.. 9781760630782, Allen & Unwin, 2017, 2.5, Toronto: Insomniac, 1994. Cover with flaps. Signs of light use. Mainly poetry by four young authors: Nik Beat, Mary Elizabeth Grace, Noah Leznoff, and Matthew Remski.. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback Original. Near Fine.., Insomniac, 1994, 4, New York: Delta. Fine copy. 1990. 2nd prt.. softcover. 8vo, 400 pp. ., Delta, 1990, 5, New York, NY: Delta/Dell, 1990. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff pictorial wraps, dark blue with hot pink and silver lettering. Slight shelf wear, virtually as issued. Square, uncreased binding. xiii,401 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs.., Delta/Dell, 1990, 5, Blackberry Books. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects., Blackberry Books, 3, Los Angeles, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Card Wrappers. Fourth Printing. 46pp. Covers fractionally handled.., Black Sparrow Press, 1971, 4, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Fair in Very Good+ dust jacket; Ex library copy with usual stamps and . marks inside. Missing title and publishers information but assume first . printing. ; Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, library binding.. 1982. First Edition (?). Hardcover. Ex-Library . 182 pages; As usual crime is booming in Los Angeles, and the Glendale Police Department are kept busy. A gunman walks into a cafe and shoots a waitress dead, seemingly at random. An 11 year-old girl is shot from a passing car. There are plenty of murders and also the off-beat cases, the burglaries where nothing is stolen, a couple who keep holding up taxicabs, and break-ins that could only be done by midgets or contortionists. One thing is for sure it's a circus out there. ; 0575031956 ., Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982, 2.5, Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. 49pp. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". 1 of 1,000 Copies.. Paperback. Fine-., Black Sparrow Press, 1971, 5, Xulon Press. New. Brand New Direct from the Publisher! Not overstocks or marked up remainders! Ships in a sturdy cardboard container with tracking!|VCF, Xulon Press, 6, London: Arrow, 1999 0099406381. Three novels in one. First edition thus. VG. Complete numberline. No annotations or inscriptions. Collectible 1319 pages plus details of other Ellroy novels. Three crime novels: 'The Big Nowhere'; 'L. A. Confidential' and 'White Jazz': All set In the 1950s in Los Angeles. In the first of the trio, three men are drawn into the shadow of communist witch hunts and violent killings that force each one to confront his own personal darkness. But none will be prepared for the maelstrom that awaits them. L. A. Confidential: L. A. Christmas 1951. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three LAD cops involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they built their corrupt and violent careers. White Jazz: LAPD Lieutenant Dave Klein made the mean streets he works on mean. But now the FBI are out to get the cops who murder, bribe and beat to serve their corrupt careers and Klein is hung out as bait. Big fish leap at his throat - racketeers, narcotic kings and scum with skeletons they would kill to keep hidden. ., Arrow, 1999, 3, Ivan R Dee, 2006-01-19. Paperback. Used: Good., Ivan R Dee, 2006-01-19, 2.5, Viking Adult, 1996. Hardcover. Used - Very Good., Viking Adult, 1996, 3, Random House Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Random House Publishing Group, 2.5, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2002. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2002, 2.5<

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New York, Los Angeles, Chicago: Vantage Press, 1988 Book. Illus. by Owings, Rae. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Rub marks, scuffs and edge wear on dust jacket; light normal w… More...

New York, Los Angeles, Chicago: Vantage Press, 1988 Book. Illus. by Owings, Rae. Very Good. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Rub marks, scuffs and edge wear on dust jacket; light normal wear on book; a nice copy. Rare first edition. Poetry inspired by dogs. 40 pages.., Vantage Press, 1988, 2.75, NY: RIVERHEAD BOOKS, 1995. Later Printing . PAPERBACK. VG., RIVERHEAD BOOKS, 1995, 3, Lionel Hampton Center - University of Idaho VHS20006.33 minutesThe Lionel Hampton Center, is an international center for the study and performance of Jazz. The Center serves to unite the University of Idaho's Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, Lionel Hampton School of Music, and the International Jazz Collections in a state-of-the-art education and performance facility. The project was completed in 2007.The Music Room has been specially designed for the performance needs of jazz ---------------------------Lionel Leo Hampton (April 20, 1908 August 31, 2002) was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.Lionel Hampton was born in 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, and was raised by his mother. Shortly after he was born, he and his mother moved to her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his early childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin, before he and his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1916. As a youth, Hampton was a member of the Bud Billiken Club, an alternative to the Boy Scouts of America, which was off-limits because of racial segregation. During the 1920s, while still a teenager, Hampton took xylophone lessons from Jimmy Bertrand and began to play drums. Hampton was raised Roman Catholic, and started out playing fife and drum at the Holy Rosary Academy near Chicago.Lionel Hampton began his career playing drums for the Chicago Defender Newsboys' Band (led by Major N. Clark Smith) while still a teenager in Chicago. He moved to California in 1927 or 1928, playing drums for the Dixieland Blues-Blowers. He made his recording debut with The Quality Serenaders led by Paul Howard, then left for Culver City and drummed for the Les Hite band at Sebastian's Cotton Club. One of his trademarks as a drummer was his ability to do stunts with multiple pairs of sticks such as twirling and juggling without missing a beat. During this period he began practicing on the vibraphone. In 1930 Louis Armstrong came to California and hired the Les Hite band, asking Hampton if he would play vibes on two songs. So began his career as a vibraphonist, popularizing the use of the instrument in the process. Invented ten years earlier, the vibraphone is essentially a xylophone with metal bars, a sustain pedal, and resonators equipped with electric-powered fans that add tremolo.While working with the Les Hite band, Hampton also occasionally did some performing with Nat Shilkret and his orchestra. During the early 1930s, he studied music at the University of Southern California. In 1934 he led his own orchestra, and then appeared in the Bing Crosby film Pennies From Heaven (1936) alongside Louis Armstrong (wearing a mask in a scene while playing drums).Also in November 1936, the Benny Goodman Orchestra came to Los Angeles to play the Palomar Ballroom. When John Hammond brought Goodman to see Hampton perform, Goodman invited him to join his trio, which soon became the Benny Goodman Quartet with Teddy Wilson and Gene Krupa completing the lineup. The Trio and Quartet were among the first racially integrated jazz groups to perform before audiences, and were a leading small-group of the day.While Hampton worked for Goodman in New York, he recorded with several different small groups known as the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, as well as assorted small groups within the Goodman band. In 1940 Hampton left the Goodman organization under amicable circumstances to form his own big band.Hampton's orchestra developed a high-profile during the 1940s and early 1950s. His third recording with them in 1942 produced the version of "Flying Home", featuring a solo by Illinois Jacquet that anticipated rhythm & blues. Although Hampton first recorded "Flying Home" under his own name with a small group in 1940 for Victor, the best known version is the big band version recorded for Decca on May 26, 1942, in a new arrangement by Hampton's pianist Milt Buckner. The 78pm disc became successful enough for Hampton to record "Flyin' Home #2" in 1944, this time a feature for Arnett Cobb. The song went on to become the theme song for all three men. Guitarist Billy Mackel first joined Hampton in 1944, and would perform and record with him almost continuously through to the late 1970s. In 1947, Hamp performed "Stardust" at a "Just Jazz" concert for producer Gene Norman, also featuring Charlie Shavers and Slam Stewart; the recording was issued by Decca. Later, Norman's GNP Crescendo label issued the remaining tracks from the concert.From the mid-1940s until the early 1950s, Hampton led a lively rhythm & blues band whose Decca Records recordings included numerous young performers who later had significant careers. They included bassist Charles Mingus, saxophonist Johnny Griffin, guitarist Wes Montgomery, and vocalist Dinah Washington. Other noteworthy band members were trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Cat Anderson, Kenny Dorham, and Snooky Young; trombonist Jimmy Cleveland, and saxophonists Jerome Richardson and Curtis Lowe.The Hampton orchestra that toured Europe in 1953 included Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Anthony Ortega, Monk Montgomery, George Wallington, Art Farmer, Quincy Jones, and singer Annie Ross. Hampton continued to record with small groups and jam sessions during the 1940s and 1950s, with Oscar Peterson, Buddy DeFranco, and others. In 1955, while in California working on The Benny Goodman Story he recorded with Stan Getz and made two albums with Art Tatum for Norman Granz as well as with his own big band.Hampton performed with Louis Armstrong and Italian singer Lara Saint Paul at the 1968 Sanremo Music Festival in Italy. The performance created a sensation with Italian audiences, as it broke into a real jazz session. That same year, Hampton received a Papal Medal from Pope Paul VI.During the 1960s, Hampton's groups were in decline; he was still performing what had succeeded for him earlier in his career. He did not fare much better in the 1970s, though he recorded actively for his Who's Who in Jazz record label, which he founded in 1977/1978.Beginning in February 1984, Hampton and his band played at the University of Idaho's annual jazz festival, which was renamed the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival the following year. In 1987 the UI's school of music was renamed for Hampton, the first university music school named for a jazz musician.1987 Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the University of Idaho UI's School of Music renamed "Lionel Hampton School of Music."Hampton remained active until a stroke in Paris in 1991 led to a collapse on stage. That incident, combined with years of chronic arthritis, forced him to cut back drastically on performances. However, he did play at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2001 shortly before his death.Hampton died from congestive heart failure at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, on August 31, 2002. He was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York. His funeral was held on September 7, 2002, and featured a performance by Wynton Marsalis and David Ostwald's Gully Low Jazz Band at Riverside Church in Manhattan; the procession began at The Cotton Club in Harlem., 2000, 3, HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, 1996. Some edgewear and creasing of spine otherwise still a good reading copy. From the back cover:"By becoming the right-hand man of legendary Hells Angels leader Sonny Barger, Anthony Tait learned all of the club’s dirtiest secrets. As the eyes and ears of an elaborate FBI undercover sting, he exposed some of the club’s “brothers” for what they really are—ruthless businessmen who will commit any crime for money, vicious thugs who: Take murder contracts out on informers Run a multimillion-dollar international drug ring that peddles speed and cocaine Use fear, intimidation, and severe beatings to keep other members in line Manipulate the legal system with high-priced lawyers when charges are brought against them Steal from each other, spy on each other—and sometimes even kill each other Hells Angels: Into the Abyss strips away the romantic myth of the lovable bad boys and takes you inside the organization’s netherworld of evil, lust, and violence. Both a chilling true-crime story and a warning about a growing threat to our cities, it will forever change the way you look at this dangerous biker club.". Mass Market Paperback. Good., HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, 1996, 2.5, Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2002. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, 2002, 2.5<