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...enthusiasm of Europeans for American jazz was almost too much for Bandleader Lionel Hampton. Trouble struck during his midnight concert last week in Amsterdam's revered Concertgebouw. TIME Correspondent Israel Schenker cabled this communiqu...
Concert starts calmly, but oldtimers remember September 1953 Hampton concert at Concertgebouw: one boy hysterical; hospital; dancing on stage; wild time. Manager said never again. Too shocking for home of great orchestra once conducted by Willem Mengelberg...
This time concert gets to halfway point without trouble. Then Hampton calls for Flying Home. Band responds. Music gets hotter. Saxophonist gets up for solo, squirms, twists, flops, lies on back, feet up. Critic for Algemeen Handelsblad makes note for next day's review: "Tenor saxophonist lies on ground and copulates with his shimmering instrument." Hampton rattles drumsticks on his soles. Calls out "Hey bob-a-reebob!" Crowd calls (Dutch accent) "Hey bob-a-reebob!" Fellow cries "Louder, louder...
Minute later two blackbooted city cops turn up. Hampton looked big, now looks small. Cops grab him. One each arm. Goes quietly. Band watches, bemused. Nobody else wants to jump into Lionel's den. Audience shocked. Screams and catcalls. Some laughter...
Sometimes his efforts came a cropper. Urged by photographers to pose with an English child in Hampton Court, Malenkov, with hundreds of children to pick from, unhappily seized on six-year-old Thomas Klouda and his brother Peter, aged three, and plunked them on his knees. The boys happened to be the sons of former Czechoslovakian Consul-General Antonin Klouda, who fled Prague after the Communist coup. "Frankly, my first thought," said father Klouda, "was how easy it would be to assassinate...