Hank Stampf

Trombonist.

Born in Manhattan on October 4, 1937, he graduated from Sewanaka High School in Floral Park, New York. Stampf spent 17 years on the road as a jazz musician, working with Smokey Stover at The Plantation in Moline, Illinois, as well as The New Glenn Miller Orchestra, Tex Beneke And His Orchestra, Clyde McCoy And His Orchestra, Ray McKinley And His Orchestra and, in 1961 as the group's youngest member, was playing lead trombone in Jimmy Dorsey And His Orchestra under the direction of Buddy Morrow. By 1965, he had also worked with Woody Herman. He attend Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, between 1964 and 1967, establishing a practice in the Seattle area by 1968, eventually spending 25 years in the chiropractic profession. He died of dementia on December 18, 2012, in Denton, Texas.