Slide Hampton Quintet

Few trombonists active in the past 50 years have been as respected as Locksley Wellington "Slide" Hampton. In the 1950s Hampton developed his talents as composer and arranger working with Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, and Maynard Ferguson. His acclaimed Slide Hampton Octet—which included Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard and George Coleman—toured extensively, particularly in Europe, and recorded on several labels, including Atlantic and Columbia. After traveling with Woody Herman to Europe in 1968, Hampton settled overseas where he stayed very active for nearly a decade. Winner of a 2005 Grammy® for instrumental arrangement for the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra's recording The Way, Music of Slide Hampton, Hampton returns to the Stanford Jazz Festival to perform with a talented ensemble.