Slide Hampton

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Slide Hampton at the Jerusalem Jazz Festival

Slide Hampton (born April 21, 1932 in Jeannette , Pennsylvania , as Locksley Wellington Hampton ) is an American jazz musician ( trombone , occasionally tuba , arrangement, composition).

life and work

Slide Hampton is the youngest child of the musical Hampton family; his father Clark Deacon Hampton Sr. led a family band with his twelve children, including the future dancer and singer Dawn Hampton (* 1928). In his early childhood, the Hampton family roamed the country as Deacon Hampton and the Cotton Pickers, performing ragtime , blues , Dixieland and polka numbers. She then settled in Indianapolis in 1938 , where the children received musical training at the McArthur School of Music.

Hampton learned the trombone at an early age (essentially as a self-taught ) and gained his first experience as a professional musician in the jazz band of his brother Clark "Duke" Hampton. This band played mostly in the Midwest and the southern United States; In 1950 she also appeared in New York's Carnegie Hall , the Apollo Theater and the Savoy Ballroom ; otherwise she played as a house band in the Cotton Club of Cincinnati . In 1952 he left the Duke Hampton Band and first played with Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson , Bill Doggett (1954) and Buddy Johnson (1955/56) before he worked for his uncle Lionel Hampton between 1956 and 1957 . He then worked as an orchestral musician and arranger for Maynard Ferguson until 1959 , and in 1960 was briefly a member of Dizzy Gillespie's big band .

Between 1959 and 1962 he went on tour with Freddie Hubbard and directed his own octet, which included George Coleman , Booker Little , Jay Cameron , Bill Elton, Pete LaRoca and Nabil Totah as well as Hubbard . In 1962, the album Exodus was written with Coleman, Butch Warren and Kenny Clarke in Paris . After leading the backing band for the singer Lloyd Price , but also as a freelance arranger, u. a. Having worked for Motown Records , where he was involved in the recording of Stevie Wonder and the Four Tops , he joined Woody Herman's orchestra in 1968 for a European tour . He then settled in Europe, first in Berlin and finally in Paris. In 1968 he recorded in Paris under his own name with Henri Texier and Daniel Humair ( Mello-Dy ), in 1970 with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , Joachim Kühn and Philly Joe Jones . He often arranged for studio bands, worked with Miriam Klein , but also with all-star casts, with Václav Zahradník and with Peter Herbolzheimer and led a big band together with Joe Haider . He also worked with Dexter Gordon , Don Byas , Johnny Griffin and Kenny Clarke.

In 1977 he returned to the USA and founded his large-format World of Trombones in New York , which had a rhythm section made up of nine trombones. In 1988 he was a founding member and musical director of Gillespies United Nations Orchestra, of which he was a member for four years. He also worked with the twelve-piece formation The Jazz Masters , which made its debut in New York's Village Vanguard in 1993 and consisted of sidemen from the Gillespie group, such as Jon Faddis , Jimmy Heath , Roy Hargrove , Claudio Roditi , Antonio Hart , David Sánchez and Danilo Perez . He also worked as a music teacher in the New York area. In 2002 he put together a big band consisting of 14 trombonists for recordings. a. Hugh Fraser , Victor Jones , John Lee , Benny Powell , Bill Watrous, and Larry Willis .

In the course of his career he has also played with musicians as diverse as Diana Ross , Clifford Brown , Curtis Fuller , Melba Liston , Albert Mangelsdorff , Steve Turré , Monty Alexander , Martial Solal , James Newton , Pharoah Sanders , John Surman , Barre Phillips , Charles Mingus and Stu Martin .

Appreciation

As an arranger and player, Hampton has a fine melodic flair; as one of the few prominent left-handed trombonists, he amazes with a fluid technique. "He represents the JJ Johnson School in the highest perfection, as an arranger he achieves powerful big band effects through skillful voice exchange with small ensembles", says Martin Kunzler.

Awards

In 2005 he was awarded a Grammy (as in 1998 for arrangements he wrote for Dee Dee Bridgewater ) . In the same year he received the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship .

Discographic notes

  • Sister Salvation (Collectables, 1960)
  • Two Sides of Slide ( Fresh Sound , 1959-61)
  • Exodus (Fresh Sound, 1962)
  • Mello-Dy (LRC, Delta, 1967/68)
  • Roots ( Criss Cross Jazz , 1985)
  • Dedicated to Diz! (Telarc, 1993)
  • Spirit of the Horn (MCGJazz, 2002)

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Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Notes on childhood and adolescence at Jazz & Ragtime in Indiana .
  2. ↑ Kunzler, Jazzlexikon, p. 470.
personal data
SURNAME Hampton, Slide
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hampton, Locksley Wellington
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz trombonist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Jeannette , Pennsylvania