Slide Hampton

Locksley Wellington "Slide" Hampton (April 21, 1932 – November 18, 2021) was an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Guinness, page 1818, (1995) As his The instrument he played most was slide trombone. This is why people called him Slide. He also sometimes played tuba and flugelhorn.

Hampton taught at Harvard, artist-in-residence in 1981,Harvard Jazz Band, 1981 the University of Massachusetts, DePaul University in Chicago, and Indiana State University.

Hampton died on November 18, 2021 at his home in Orange, New Jersey at the age of 89.

References

Other websites
 Slide Hampton Website 
 Official Slide Hampton™ Webstore 
 Slide Hampton™ EPK 
 Slide Hampton discography at JazzDiscography.com
 Slide Hampton at The Trombone Page of the World
 Trombone.org: Slide Hampton 

Category:American Grammy Award winners
Category:1932 births
Category:2021 deaths
Category:American jazz musicians
Category:Educators from Pennsylvania
Category:American composers
Category:American trombonists
Category:Musicians from Pennsylvania