The Lionel Hampton Quintet
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| Studio album by Lionel Hampton | ||||
| Released | 1954 | |||
| Recorded | April 12-13, 1954 at Fine Sound, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Clef - MGC 628 | |||
| Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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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.
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."
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