Artist: Lionel Hampton
Album: Reunion At Newport 1967
Genre: Big Band, Swing
Label: Bluebird
Released: 1993
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Turn Me Loose (4:29)
- Thai Silk (4:31)
- Greasy Greens (4:39)
- Tempo's Birthday (2:51)
- Misunderstood Blues (5:58)
- Meet Benny Bailey (4:34)
- Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop / Hamp's Boogie Woogie (3:30)
- Flying Home (8:19)
- Greasy Greens (encore) (4:42)
- Flamenco Soul (6:06)
- Hot Club of Madrid Serenade (4:13)
- Tenderly (7:06)
- Toledo Blade (4:13)
- Bop City Flamenco (6:08)
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Most of this CD is taken up by a special Newport Jazz Festival concert featuring a big band full of Lionel Hampton's alumni. With trombonist Al Grey, Frank Foster on tenor and a screaming trumpet section that boasted Snooky Young, Jimmy Nottingham, Joe Newman and Wallace Davenport, the explosive nature of the music is not too surprising; the climax is provided by guest Illinois Jacquet on "Flying Home." The remainder of this disc contains half of a very effective 1956 session cut in Spain in which the medium-size group includes a castanet player and two songs match Hampton with the great Spanish pianist Tete Monteliu.