Paula Hampton

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Paula Hampton (* 11. July 1938 in Middletown (Ohio) as Paulea Kerley ) is an American jazz musician (drums, vocals).

Live and act

Hampton comes from a family of musicians who also formed the family band The Hampton Family , which initially toured nationwide , in which her great-uncle Lionel Hampton and her uncle, Slide Hampton , also performed. She learned the drums and played with the family band in Indiana . In the mid-1960s, Hampton moved to New York City , where she first played with Milt Hinton , then with Bertha Hope , with Amina Claudine Myers and with other musicians, for example as Jazz Sisters . Since 1985 she has toured Europe repeatedly with her own band Celebration . In the late 1980s and early 1990s she worked with Dakota Staton for five years and also accompanied singer Sandra Reaves-Phillips . She plays with Bertha Hope and Kim Clarke in the group Jazzberry Jam! who recorded her first CD at a festival in Florida in 1997.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Leander Williams Indianapolis Jazz: The Masters, Legends and Legacy of Indiana Avenue Charleston 2014
  2. ↑ The father worked for the circus. The mother appeared publicly as a pianist and singer with the band The Hampton Sisters . See Ursel Schlicht It's Gotta Be Music First. On the meaning, reception and work situation of jazz musicians Karben 2000, p. 107ff.
  3. ^ Leslie Gourse Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists Oxford University Press 1996, pp. 26ff.
  4. ^ Leslie Gourse Madame Jazz: Contemporary Women Instrumentalists p. 232
personal data
SURNAME Hampton, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerley, Paulea (maiden name); Rhine, Paulea Kerley (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Middletown, Ohio