Another Lionel Hampton Inquiry

[JSngry]

Coronet CX-159 LIONEL HAMPTON

Liners claim its a fall 1961 concert recorded in Malibu Beach. Anybody got personnel? Also, I've not known Coronet to have released "original" material, so had this been out elsewhere previously?

As always, thanks in advance!

[brownie]

The Lord says this Coronet comes from an August 1951 concert at Malibu Beach, Calif. This has appeared on various labels.

Personnel should be:

Quincy Jones, Benny Bailey, Ed Mullens, Leo Shepherd, Walter Williams, tp, Jimmy Cleveland, Al Grey, Paul Lee, Benny Powell, tb, Bobby Plater, Jerome Richardson, as, Gil Bernal, Johnny Board, Curtis Lowe, ts, Ben Kynard, bar, Milt Buckner, org, Billy Mackel, g, Roy Johnson, b, Ellis Bartee, dr, and Hampton.

Personnel looks better than good. How do they sound?

[JSngry]

Don't know yet. I will soon enough, though, and will let you know. That lineup sure DOES look good, doesn't it! And yeah, the liners say 1961, but 1951 would be more likely for a label like Coronet, I'd think.

The prospect of hearing Johhny Board (aka Mr. "the OTHER tenor player on Sonny Stitt Live At DJ Lounge") blow some more is tantalizing, let me tell you. I hope it happens.

If you don't mind, could you give me some klind of idea on what OTHER labels this might have been released on? Anything even remotely "major", at least in jazz terms?

No matter, though. Thanks Brownie!

[brownie]

The Lord says this should have originally appeared on Spin-O-Rama 3077. There is a note to the session indicating the titles were used under various pseudonyms on different labels such as Tiara, Coronet, Parade, Gala, Society, Vogue (Mode).

The date also appeared on a Jasmine CD.

Nearly all the labels used pseudonyms and very seldom does the correct title appear.

The correct titles are:

- Flying Home

- Stardust

- Autumn in New York

- How High the Moon

- Out of breath

- Hamp's Boogiewoogie.

Have fun!

[JSngry]

Spin-O-Rama was the ORIGINAL label?

Had a listen this morning, and it's nearly hamp all the way (surprise! ), other than "Flying Home" which features Richardson and the two tenorists, one of whom's job is to play Jacquet's solo (and neither of whom sounds the Board on DJ, which in this context is, of course, no grounds for comparison). Other than that, and a bit of locked-hands piano from Buckner on "Boogie Woogie", the band exists to play closing chords and tags. Seems like a horrible waste of a great band, but otoh, Hamp is, as always, a combination of superior musicality/invention and shameless pandering, a combination that for some reason endears him to me, mainly, I guess, because he's so damn EXTREME in both directions.

Oh, btw - "Out Of Breath" is actually "I Can't Get Started" (makes sense, right?), & "Autumn In New York"" is actually "September In The Rain". I think they used those psedonyms (on this album, "Malibu Swing" (Stardust), "Autumn" (September..), "Breathless Vibes" (...Started) & "Short Of Breath" (...Boogie...) because there's no melody statements. The things begin with Hamp soloing, and stay that way. $ave$ on paying publ$hing royaltie$, don't cha' know, which might explain the plethora of "budget" labels this thing seems to have appeared on.

All in all, not a "lost treasure" or anything, but for 3 bucks, a mighty fine addition to the "rest of the story" part of the collection (a part I find essential in its OWN way), enhanced by the superb "you are there, sitting around the campfire while the band plays" quality of the original Coronet pressing.

Spin-O-Rama was the ORIGINAL label?