Slide Hampton's distinguished career spans decades in the evolution of jazz. At the age of 12 he was already touring the Midwest with the Indianapolis-based Hampton Band, led by his father and ...

I wish my friend Bill Swanson were alive to hear this. Bill loved the trombone, and would have greatly admired this picturesque performance by Slide Hampton’s World of Trombones in concert at the ...

All hail music, brothers and sisters, and listen to Slide Hampton give a sermon on its merits. “Music is what people did for entertainment, education and just enjoyment in general,” Hampton told an ...

Slide Hampton, renowned as a virtuoso jazz trombonist and as a Grammy Award-winning composer and musical arranger, died Nov. 18 at his home in Orange, N.J. He was 89. The death was confirmed by a son, ...

On November 15, jazz trombonist, bandleader, arranger and composer Locksley Wellington Hampton, universally known as “Slide” Hampton, died at his home in central New Jersey. Hampton was a celebrated ...

He has truly seen, done and heard it all, and he'll tell you all about it tonight when jazz trombonist, composer, arranger and teacher Slide Hampton performs in the UNCW Cultural Arts Building Recital ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Slide Hampton, a jazz mainstay on the trombone for more than 60 years, died Saturday at his home in Orange, NJ at age 89. His ...

Slide Hampton, the veteran trombonist who guested with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at the IAJE last month and wrote all the music on their The Way, is a J.J. Johnson man, although he uses more ...

Washington [US], November 25 (ANI): Slide Hampton, who was a jazz mainstay on the trombone for more than 60 years, died recently at his home in Orange, NJ at the age of 89. According to Deadline, his ...