01. Peggy's Blue Skylight 
02. Apple Core 
03. Lullaby of Birdland 
04. Take the 'A' Train 
05. Midnight Blues 
06. The Man I Love 
07. Blues for Gates 
08. Fatha Meets Gates 
09. As Long As We're Here 
10. Fables of Faubus 
11. Blues for Gerry 

Lionel Hampton - Vibes
Ricky Ford - Tenor Saxophone
Dexter Gordon - Soprano Saxophone
Dexter Gordon - Tenor Saxophone
Earl Hines - Piano
Hank Jones - Piano
Thad Jones - Trumpet
Charles Mingus - Bass
Gerry Mulligan - Sax (Baritone
Bucky Pizzarelli - Guitar
Buddy Rich - Drums
Dannie Richmond - Drums
Woody Shaw - Trumpet
Lucky Thompson - Soprano Saxophone
Jack Walrath - Trumpet
Teddy Wilson - Piano
Teddy Wilson Jr. - Drums
Oliver Jackson - Drums
Paul Jeffrey - Tenor Saxophone
Steve Marcus - Soprano Saxophone
Bob Neloms - Piano
Grady Tate - Drums
Candido - Conga
Coleman Hawkins - Tenor Saxophone
George Duvivier - Bass
Clark Terry - Trumpet
Milt Hinton - Bass
J.J. Johnson - Trombone
Osie Johnson - Drums
Barry Kiener - Piano
Peter Matt - Horn
Arvell Shaw - Bass
Tom Warrington - Bass
Tom Warrington - Trumpet
Sam Turner – Conga

During 1977, vibraphonist Lionel Hampton had the opportunity to record full albums with all-star groups headed by Charles Mingus (a nonet also including Woody Shaw and Gerry Mulligan), Mulligan, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Rich, Teddy Wilson and Earl Hines, among many others. One or two selections from each of those sets are included in this 1993 CD reissue, plus two titles "Ghost of a Chance," "Stella By Starlight," "When I Fall In Love" and "Sweet Sue." ---Scott Yanow, AllMusic Review

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1. In The Bag
2. Dig Those Vibes
3. Jack The Fox Boogie
4. How High The Moon
5. Million Dollar Smile
6. Turkey Hop (Parts 1 & 2)
7. Double Talk
8. Empty Glass (Normania)
9. Hamp's Gumbo No 2		play
10. Mingus Fingers
11. Three Minutes On 52nd Street
12. Hamp's Got A Duke
13. Dancing On The Ceiling
14. Blues For Little 'T'
15. Memories Of You
16. Silver Slipper		play

Musicians:
Lionel Hampton – vibraphone
Karl George, Ernie Royal, Joe Newman – trumpets
Fred Beckett, Sonny Craven, Harry Sloan – trombones
Marshall Royal – clarinet and alto sax
Ray Perry – alto sax
Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet – tenor sax
Jack McVea – baritone sax
Milt Buckner – piano
Irving Ashby – guitar
Vernon Alley – string bass
George Jenkins - drums

Lionel Leo Hampton (1908–2002), was a U.S. bandleader, jazz percussionist, and vibraphonist.

Hampton was born on 20th April 1908 in Louisville, Kentucky, but moved to Chicago as a child, where he began his career as a drummer. He relocated to Los Angeles to play drums in Les Hite’s band. They soon became the house band for Frank Sebastian’s New Cotton Club, a popular L.A. jazz club.

During a 1930 recording date in the NBC studios in L.A., Louis Armstrong discovered a vibraphone. He asked Hampton if he could play it. Hampton, who knew how to play the xylophone, tried it and they agreed to record a few records with Hamp on vibes. Hampton is credited with popularizing the vibraphone as a jazz instrument.

In the mid-1930s, the Benny Goodman Orchestra came to Los Angeles to play the Palomar Ballroom. John Hammond brought Goodman to see Hampton play. Goodman asked Hampton to move to New York City and join Goodman, Teddy Wilson, and Gene Krupa who’d already formed a Benny Goodman Trio within the large band - to expand into the Benny Goodman Quartet. The Trio and Quartet were among the first racially integrated bands to record and play before wide audiences; they were just as well received at Goodman’s famous 1938 Carnegie Hall concert as was the full Goodman band.

While Hampton worked for Goodman in New York, he recorded with several different small groups known as the Lionel Hampton Orchestra as well as assorted small groups within the Goodman band. In the early 40s he left the Goodman organization to form his own touring band.

Hampton’s band fostered the talents of Illinois Jacquet, Dexter Gordon, Ernie Royal, Jack Mcvea, Charlie Mingus, Monk Montgomery, Wes Montgomery, Quincy Jones, Benny Golson, Fats Navarro, Kenny Dorham, Clifford Brown, Dinah Washington, Betty Carter, Joe Williams, Arnett Cobb, Earl Bostic, and John Colianni among many others.

Hampton’s recording of “Flying Home” (1939) with the famous honking tenor sax solo by Jacquet, later refined and expanded by Cobb (1946), is considered by some to be the first rock and roll record. He was known for his tireless energy and his skill on the vibes, drums, and lightning speed two-fingered piano. The bars on the vibraphone are laid out like the piano; Hampton played both instruments the same way.

Beginning in the mid-1980s, Hampton and his band started playing at the University of Idaho’s jazz concert, which in 1985 was renamed the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. In 1987 the University’s music college was renamed the Lionel Hampton School of Music, the first and only university music college to be named after a jazz musician.

Lionel Hampton died of cardiac arrest at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York on 31st August 2002. He was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York. ---last.fm

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.Flying Home
2.Je Ne Sais Pas
3.On the Sunny Side of the Street
4.April in Paris                 play
5.Don't Be That Way
6.These Foolish Things
7.Way You Look Tonight, The
8.It's Only a Paper Moon

Personnel: 
Lionel Hampton (vibraphone); 
Buddy Defranco (clarinet); 
Oscar Peterson (piano); 
Ray Brown (bass); 
Buddy Rich (drums).

Recorded at Fine Sound, New York, New York on April 12-13, 1954.

In 1954, producer Norman Granz held a couple of marathon recording sessions featuring vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, pianist Oscar Peterson, bassist Ray Brown, drummer Buddy Rich, and (on April 13) clarinetist Buddy DeFranco. This set has three selections from the DeFranco date (a 17-plus-minute "Flying Home," the original "Je Ne Sais Pas," and "On the Sunny Side of the Street") and one from the earlier session ("April in Paris"). 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. [The Verve Master Edition also features the tracks "Don't Be That Way," "These Foolish Things," "The Way You Look Tonight," and "It's Only a Paper Moon."] ---Scott Yanow, Rovi

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