Lionel Hampton - Air Mail Special

Styles: Vibraphone Jazz
Year: 1954
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:54
Size: 73,2 MB
Art: Front

( 7:38) 1. Air Mail Special
( 6:13) 2. Soft Winds
( 6:51) 3. It's Only a Paper Moon
(11:11) 4. The Way You Look Tonight

This impossible-to-find LP from the 1950s contains two fine selections featuring a quartet comprised of Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and Buddy Rich but is most memorable for the other two numbers which add the great clarinetist Buddy DeFranco to the band. Their version of "It's Only a Paper Moon" is remarkably uptempo and really swings hard; Hampton challenges his fellow legends to some spectacular playing.~ Scott Yanow https://www.allmusic.com/album/air-mail-special-mw0000277498

Personnel: Vibraphone, Leader – Lionel Hampton; Bass – Ray Brown; Clarinet – Buddy DeFranco; Drums – Buddy Rich

Air Mail Special

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