- Title: USA: NEW ORLEANS STYLE FUNERAL HELD FOR JAZZ LEGEND LIONEL HAMPTON.
- Date: 8th September 2002
- Summary: (U6) NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 7, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV: EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH 0.04 2. GV/PAN: PROCESSION ENTERS THE CHURCH WITH MUSIC 0.17 3. GV/PAN: COFFIN IS BROUGHT TO THE ALTAR 0.24 4. MV: JAZZ BAND FOLLOW COFFIN DOWN AISLE 0.32 5. LV/TILT UP: WIDE OF THE CHURCH WITH CROWD 0.38 6. MV/LV: FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH ARRIVING (2 SHOTS) 0.47 7. MCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) GEORGE BUSH, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A., SAYING: "Just as every song has an end so too has come time to bid well to this mortal being. We leave heart hear today that Lionel is truly flying home and that his suffering is over and toady he rests in the fathers loving arms. And as Quincey Jones so aptly put it after Lionel's passing, Heaven will definitely be feeling some back beat now. Thank you all and God Bless Lionel Hampton." 1.22 8. GV/ZOOM IN: LIONEL HAMPTON ORCHESTRA 1.35 9. MV/CU: WYNTON MARSALIS PLAYING TRUMPET (2 SHOTS) 1.55 10. GV/PAN: FUNERAL PROCESSION LEAVING CHURCH 2.09 11. MV/GV/PAN: FUNERAL PARADE PLAYING MUSIC IN STREET IN FRONT OF THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH; WIDE OF CHURCH (2 SHOTS) 2.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Story Text: Lionel Hampton, one of the most extraordinary musicians
of the 20th century, was put to rest with a New Orleans style
funeral procession in Harlem, New York.
Lionel Hampton, whose flamboyant mastery of the
vibraphone made him one of the leading figures of the swing
era, had his funeral in Harlem, New York, on Saturday,
September 7th, 2002. He was 94.
A New Orleans style funeral procession took place in the
crowded Riverside Church.
The likes of Wynton Marsalis played the Lionel Hampton
song "Midnight Sun" with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra.
Former President George H. W. Bush, a good friend of
Hampton, spoke some kind words about the famed musician.
"Just as every song has an end so too has come time to bid
well to this mortal being. We leave heart hear today that
Lionel is truly flying home and that his suffering is over and
toady he rests in the fathers loving arms. And as Quincey
Jones so aptly put it after Lionel's passing, Heaven will
definitely be feeling some back beat now," he said.
Mr. Hampton, who lived in Manhattan and until recently
continued to tour the world with his own immensely popular big
band, was an important figure in American music, not only as
an entertainer and an improvising musician in jazz, but also
because his band helped usher in rock 'n' roll.
In 1942, Mr. Hampton recorded one of the more influential
recordings in the history of American music, "Flying Home,"
which featured a honking and shouting solo by the tenor
saxophonist Illinois Jacquet that set the emotional atmosphere
for rock.
Mr. Hampton performed on piano and drums and was one of
the first musicians to play the vibraphone in jazz, on
groundbreaking recordings with Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter
and Benny Goodman in the 1920's and 30's.
Mr. Hampton's harmonically and rhythmically sophisticated
performances set the parameters for virtually every
vibraphonist to appear since, including Milt Jackson, Bobby
Hutcherson and Terry Gibbs.
Mr. Hampton's band made its presence felt not only in
swing but in early bebop and rhythm and blues. He programmed
his shows regularly with boogie-woogie pieces, and his
arrangements often quoted popular light classics. It was all
an attempt to make concerts and recordings reach out to an
audience. Mr. Hampton was an entertainer, and he kept jazz a
popular art.
A longtime Republican, he was active in party affairs,
campaigning for, among others, Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan
and the elder George Bush. He was also active in developing
housing projects, among them the Gladys Hampton Houses, a
low-income complex in Harlem, which was named after his wife,
the former Gladys Riddle, who died in 1971. They had no
children, and no immediate family members survive.
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