Planet Jazz [Import]

Lionel Hampton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: RCA Victor Europe
• ASIN: B0000089ZI
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,822,627 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Munson Street Breakdown

2. I've Found a New Baby

3. I Can't Get Started

4. Flamenco Soul

5. Hot Club of Madrid Serenade

6. Tenderly

7. Dinah

8. Tempo and Swing

9. Jack the Bellboy

10. Toledo Blade

11. Bop City Flamenco

12. Blue Because of You

13. Jivin' With Jarvis

14. Central Avenue Breakdown

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre Introduction to Hamp, May 15, 2007

By 

Nikica Gilic - See all my reviews

This review is from: Planet Jazz (Audio CD)

Sampling the career that witnessed the birth of swing and lasted into the 90's (!) should be hard to say the least, but that task is not even attempted at this compilation. However, since the recordings are either from 1939, 1940 or 1956, this is obviously not an overview of a phase in his career.
Among Hamp's classical recordings are definitively those in the Benny Goodman quartet, not represented here, so the compilation without them should better contain some great music.

That can be find here - small groups with (young and tallented pianist) Nat King Cole, the trumpets of Benny Carter and Ziggy Elman, saxes of Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster; Hamp plays some rhythimical piano in addition to vibes, but too much time is alloted to a single and not very significant session in Madrid in 1956.
Half of the CD is taken by an OK mix of classical and modern jazz with latin influences (Hamp's Sketches of Spain, one might say...). The most prominent Spanish participants on this session are the interesting pianist Tete Montoliu and not very functional (at least from jazz point of view) castanets player Maria Angelica...