Chico Hamilton

   
Artist: Chico Hamilton

   Genre(s): 
Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 El Chico

   Year: 1965   
Tracks: 8

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Chico Hamilton, a elusive and creative drummer, will belike constantly be better known for the series of quintets that he light-emitting diode during 1955-1965 and for his ability as a gift talent scout than for his hunky-dory drumming. Hamilton first-class honours degree played drums patch in high schoolhouse with the many ok young players (including Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet, and Charles Mingus) wHO were in Los Angeles at the 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 (transcription 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 quadruple (1952-1953). In 1955, Hamilton put together his number one quintet, 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 important 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 personnel changed over the side by side few age (with Paul Horn and Eric Dolphy heard on reeds, violoncellist Nate Gersham, guitarists John Pisano and Dennis Budimir, and respective bassists passage through the chemical group) simply it maintained its unusual intelligent. By 1961, Charles Lloyd was on tenor and fluting, Gabor Szabo was the new guitar player, and before long the cello was dropped in favour of trombone (Garnett Brown and later George Bohanon), giving the mathematical group an advanced-hard bebop expressive style.


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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