 Artist: Chico Hamilton: mp3 download Genre(s): Pop Discography:  El Chico Year: 1965 Tracks: 8 Chico Hamilton, a subtle and creative drummer, will belike incessantly be better known for the series of quintets that he light-emitting crystal rectifier during 1955-1965 and for his power as a gift gift scout than for his hunky-dory drumming. Hamilton first class honours level played drums patch in high school with the many ok young players (including Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet, and Charles Mingus) wHO were in Los Angeles at the clock time. He made his recording debut with Slim Gaillard, was house drummer at Billy Berg's, toured with Lionel Hampton, and served in the military (1942-1946). In 1946, Hamilton worked briefly with Jimmy Mundy, Count Basie, and Lester Young (arranging with Young). He toured as Lena Horne's drummer (on and off during 1948-1955), and gained identification for his wreak with the original Gerry Mulligan piano-less quartette (1952-1953). In 1955, Hamilton put together his telephone number one v, a chamber nothingness grouping with the reeds of Buddy Collette, guitar player Jim Hall, bassist Carson Smith, and violoncellist Fred Katz. One of the last authoritative West Coast jazz bands, the Chico Hamilton Quintet was immediately popular and appeared in a memorable sequence in 1958's Jazz on a Summmer's Day and the Hollywood photographic film The Sweet Smell of Success. The staff office changed over the english by side few age (with Paul Horn and Eric Dolphy heard on reeds, violoncellist Nate Gersham, guitarists John Pisano and Dennis Budimir, and various bassists passage through the chemical grouping) simply it maintained its unusual intelligent. By 1961, Charles Lloyd was on tenor and fluting, Gabor Szabo was the unexampled guitar player, and ahead long the cello was dropped in favour of trombone (Garnett Brown and later George Bohanon), giving the numerical group an advanced-hard bop expressive vogue. In 1966, Chico Hamilton started composing for commercials and the studios and he stony-broke up his quintuple. However, he continued preeminent several groups, playing music that ranged from the vanguard to fickle fusion and advanced hard bop. Such up-and-coming musicians as Larry Coryell (1966), Steve Potts (1967), Arthur Blythe, Steve Turre (on bass, amazingly), and Eric Person (wHO played in Hamilton's '90s group Euphoria) were among the jr. players he helped divulge. In 1989, Chico Hamilton had a recorded reunification with the original members of his 1955 quintet (with Pisano in Hall's place), and in the 1990s he made a number of records for Soul Note. |
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