JazzMn Big Band with Slide Hampton

Locksley Wellington “Slide” Hampton may have started in the biz because his dad’s band was short a trombonist, but from that humble beginning he’s become a living legend with forty years’ mastery of the instrument and the kind of original sound you can only get from, er, tooting your own horn. Last year’s live CD Spirit of the Horn was the first in twenty years recorded with his World of Trombones combo, a thirteen-piece orchestra made up entirely of trombonists. If that sounds gimmicky, you haven’t heard the wonderful brassy texture such a wall of sound creates. He’ll appear on the Bethel campus with the local JazzMn orchestra. 3900 Bethel Drive, St. Paul; (651) 638-6400; www.jazzmn.org