Jazz Articles about Chico Hamilton

Chico Hamilton: The Alternative Dimensions of El Chico

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 4, 2008

Mostrare il proprio lato alternativo all’età di 87 anni nasconde di per sé più di qualche curiosità. Sì perché, Chico Hamilton, batterista che ha prestato le proprie bacchette a gente del calibro di Dexter Gordon, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, non avrebbe molto interesse a farsi ascoltare ancora in giro. Se non fosse per quel benedetto vizio che si chiama musica: elisir di lunga vita irresistibile e irrinunciabile. Anche quando ti presentano un team di remixer, dj e produttori ...

Chico Hamilton: It's About Time!

by Terrell Kent Holmes
August 10, 2008

"It's about time," a common phrase of exasperated relief, has deeper temporal meanings as the title of Chico Hamilton's new CD. Its primary reference is to keeping time on the drums, which Hamilton has done skillfully for over a half-century. Moreover, the drums/bass/guitar trio setup on this disc is the same type he used on his 1955 debut as a leader, which gives the album a retrospective aspect. Finally, It's About Time! is a mere 28 minutes long--a time frame ...

Chico Hamilton: Hamiltonia

by Lyn Horton
October 1, 2007

Defying conventions even in the mildest of musical settings can define a path to innovation. For drummer Foreststorn “Chico Hamilton, blazing a trail within his own dynamic language, sometimes reflecting his heritage, has been a lifelong tradition.

On Hamiltonia, octogenarian Hamilton has chosen a group of originals from four 2006 recordings to summarize a view of his musical personality. The lack of presumption in both his musicianship and his compositions propels an unmistakable sound that is free-flowing, steadfast ...

Chico Hamilton Quintet & Fred Katz: Classical Katz

by Nic Jones
September 17, 2007

The lasting impression of this music by drummer Chico Hamilton and composer/cellist Fred Katz is that of a quiet revolution overtaken by events captured in time to such an extent that it encapsulates that moment or at least a particular strand of musical development that has since petered out to nothing in the half century that's passed since the music was recorded.

For this is a highly formal variety of jazz, so much so in fact, that there are times ...

New School Jazz Celebrates 20 Years With Concert

by James Nichols
July 19, 2007

20th Anniversary Concert New School New York, NY June 20, 2007New School's good for jazz; and it has been for a long time. As early as 1941 the New School for Social Research began holding classes in jazz, making it the first college in New York City to do so. To put this date in context, at about the same time as New School began teaching jazz classes, up at Minton's Playhouse ...

Chico Hamilton: Juniflip

by Marcia Hillman
October 10, 2006

What is it with jazz drummers? They seem to go on forever like the Energizer bunny. Chico Hamilton celebrates his 85th birthday this year with four new releases, of which Juniflip is a swinger with guests George Bohanon (trombone), Jimmy Cheatham (bass trombone), and vocalists Bill Henderson and Arthur Lee (frontman for the band LOVE) augmenting Hamilton's working group, known as Euphoria: Cary Denigris (guitar), Paul Ramsey (Fender bass) and Evan Schwam (flute, tenor and soprano sax). ...

Chico Hamilton: Believe, 6th Avenue Romp & Heritage

by Donald Elfman
August 5, 2006

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Chico Hamilton has had an extraordinary career - he's played with many of the jazz greats, led influential groups, introduced talented musicians, written ...