Lionel Hampton on Cocktail Drum

[jmettam]

Here is a YouTube video someone sent me. THis is the first vintage Cocktail Drum video clip I have seen. Lionel Hampton plays a single headed Cocktail Drum out fromt of his band!

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[robertm]

That's it...I'm packing up my cocktail drum and going back to accounting school...insanely cool video. Thanks for posting it.

[matthew medeiros]

That's a Vespe He's playing on