Program #324 (April 25 at 8:00pm)
Lionel Hampton was the first jazz vibraphonist and was one of the jazz giants beginning in the mid- 30s. He has achieved the difficult feat of being musically open-minded (even recording Giant Steps ) without changing his basic swing style.
Hamp started out as a drummer, playing with the Chicago Defender Newsboys Band as a youth. His original idol was Jimmy Bertrand, a 20s drummer who occasionally played xylophone. Hampton played on the West Coast with such groups as Curtis Mosby s Blue Blowers, Reb Spikes, and Paul Howard s Quality Serenaders (with whom he made his recording debut in 1929) before joining Les Hite s band, which for a period accompanied Louis Armstrong.
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Tune in weekday mornings at 7:50 and 8:50 am for Stories of Standards when Rodney Franks presents our favorite versions of “Moment’s Notice” all week long!
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“Moment’s Notice” (1957) by John Coltrane was featured on
Blue Train and recorded 9/15/1957 for Blue Note under an agreement with Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion. The recording artists included John Coltrane on tenor saxophone, Paul Chambers on double bass, Kenny Drew on piano, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Philly Joe Jones on drums and Lee Morgan on trumpet. All songs on the album were written by Coltrane save one (“I’m Old Fashioned: by Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer) and the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. While Coltrane only recorded “Moment’s Notice” once, other artists have regarded “Moment’s Notice” as a standard.