The first Jazz Vibraphone player Lionel Hampton, ("Hamp") worked with a host of musicians too numerous to mention. He played early on with Benny Goodman's Orchestra , making it one of the first interracial bands, and eventually started his own "Lionel Hampton Orchestra." In 1985 the University of Idaho Jazz Festival changed to become the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival,  making it the first and only Jazz fest named for an African American Jazz artist, and it is still growing today.

If you don't yet know this enduring legend, here's a little taste of his lengthy Jazz career; a career which turned him into one of the foundations of Jazz music.