Lionel Hampton’s Death – Cause and Date

The drummer Lionel Hampton died at the age of 94. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Jazz vibraphonist, bandleader, composer, and educator who has played with artists like Charlie Parker. He was an Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame inductee in 1992.

He married Gladys Neal Riddle on November 11, 1936. She worked as Hampton’s manager.

Lionel Hampton, whose flamboyant mastery of the vibraphone made him one of the leading figures of the swing era, died yesterday morning at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 94. The cause was complications of old age and a recent heart attack, said his manager, Phil Leshin.

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Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.

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Black and white players hadn’t appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

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Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

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I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

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I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.