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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jazz thrives as much on its resourceful journeymen as it does on its outstanding innovators. Slide Hampton, who died last year, at eighty-nine, was lauded for his contributions as a trombonist, ...

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 grandson confirmed his death, but didn’t give a cause. Hampton was one of ...

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 ...

He began playing professionally as a child, worked with some of jazz’s biggest names in the 1950s and was a leading figure in the music for the next 60 years. By Clay Risen Slide Hampton, a jazz ...