Editing Lionel Hampton (section)

===With Benny Goodman===
{{quote box|width=300px|quote=As far as I'm concerned, what he did in those days—and they were hard days in 1937—made it possible for Negroes to have their chance in baseball and other fields.|source='''Lionel Hampton''' on ''Benny Goodman''<ref name=Firestone />|}}

Also in November 1936,<ref name="Swing: Third Ear" /><!-- date specific reference, please do not move! --> the [[Benny Goodman]] Orchestra came to Los Angeles to play the [[Palomar Ballroom]]. When [[John H. Hammond|John Hammond]] brought Goodman to see Hampton perform, Goodman invited him to join his trio, which soon became the Benny Goodman Quartet with pianist [[Teddy Wilson]] and drummer [[Gene Krupa]] completing the lineup. The Trio and Quartet were among the first racially integrated jazz groups to perform before audiences,<ref name=Firestone>{{cite book |last=Firestone |first=Ross |title=Swing, Swing, Swing: The Life & Times of Benny Goodman |url=https://archive.org/details/swingswingswingl00fire |url-access=registration |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |year=1994 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/swingswingswingl00fire/page/183 183–184] |isbn=0-393-31168-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| last = Scott| first = William B.| title = New York Modern: The Arts and the City| url = https://archive.org/details/newyorkmodernart0000scot| url-access = registration| publisher = [[Johns Hopkins University Press]]| date = 1999| page = [https://archive.org/details/newyorkmodernart0000scot/page/263 263]| isbn = 0801867932}}</ref> and were a leading small group of the day.