The Lionel Hampton Quintet Explained

The Lionel Hampton Quintet
Type:	studio
Artist:	Lionel Hampton
Cover:	Lionel Hampton Quintet.jpeg
Released:	1954
Recorded:	April 12–13, 1954 at Fine Sound, New York City
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Clef - MGC 628^[1]
Producer:	Norman Granz
Chronology:	Lionel Hampton
Prev Title:	Crazy Hamp
Prev Year:	1954
Next Title:	The Lionel Hampton Art Tatum Buddy Rich Trio
Next Year:	1955

The Lionel Hampton Quintet is a 1954 album by Lionel Hampton accompanied by a quintet including clarinetist Buddy DeFranco.

The album was reissued by Verve Records in 1999, with four extra tracks.

Reception

Scott Yanow reviewed the album for Allmusic and wrote that "...Hampton is typically exuberant throughout (grunting rather loudly during a few later ensemble choruses on "Flying Home"), DeFranco and Peterson are as swinging as usual, and the overall music is quite joyous. Even if "Flying Home" does not reach Granz's claim of being the best-ever version of the song (one misses the honking tenor and screaming trumpet), this is an excellent and rather spontaneous outing."

Track listing

1. "Flying Home" (Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Sydney Robin) - 17:11
2. "Je Ne Sais Pas" (Hampton) - 6:33
3. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) - 5:52
4. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. "Yip" Harburg) - 6:25

Bonus tracks; Issued on the 1999 Verve CD Reissue, Verve 314-589-100-2

5. "Don't Be That Way" (Goodman, Mitchell Parish, Edgar Sampson) - 9:28
6. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) - 8:36
7. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Fields, Jerome Kern) - 11:14
8. "It's Only a Paper Moon" (Harold Arlen, Harburg, Billy Rose) - 6:48

Personnel

• Lionel Hampton - vibraphone
• Buddy DeFranco - clarinet
• Oscar Peterson - piano
• Ray Brown - double bass
• Buddy Rich - drums

Production

• David Stone Martin - cover illustration
• Norman Granz - producer

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Lionel Hampton Quintet. discogs.com. 6 December 2015.