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Jeff Hamilton at Phoenix Musicians Union
by Patricia Myers
Jeff Hamilton Trio with Armand Boatman and Jack Radavich Phoenix Musicians Union Phoenix, Arizona March 6, 2014 An Oscar Peterson Trio-like swingfest was delivered by Los Angeles-based drummer Jeff Hamilton in a reunion with longtime Phoenix pianist Armand Boatman, for a scholarship benefit concert presented by the Phoenix Musicians Union as part of its Centennial celebration. The trio, with Phoenix-area bassist Jack Radavich, displayed the big-ears attention required of unrehearsed gigs, resulting in an amazingly ...
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by Patricia Myers
Jeff Hamilton Trio Fairway House at Grayhawk Arizona Musicfest Scottsdale, Arizona February 13, 2014 The Jeff Hamilton Trio's performance at Arizona Musicfest was aptly and enticingly billed as “Paragon of Groove," and the combo delivered that groove from first note to last. Hamilton's precise power and nuanced sensitivity was evident throughout the two-set concert, a perfect fit with the elegance of pianist Tamir Hendelman and the rich timbre of acoustic bassist Christoph ...
Continue ReadingWilford Brimley With The Jeff Hamilton Trio: Wilford Brimley With The Jeff Hamilton Trio
by Dan Bilawsky
Acting and singing aren't mutually exclusive talents. The best singers, in fact, are natural born actors, inhabiting the stories set out for them in the songs that they sing. The opposite, however, doesn't always ring true; the best actors are not always natural born singers. In this day and age, the fame of the thespian has become a license to sing, with everybody from Hugh Laurie to Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe to Russell Brand brandishing a microphone, but the ...
Continue ReadingJeff Hamilton with the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble: Time Passes On
by Edward Blanco
One of the premier college jazz bands in the country joins forces with one of the most significant big band drummers alive today for Time Passes On, as the DePaul University Jazz Ensemble invites Grammy Award-winning drummer Jeff Hamilton for a live recording at Chicago's legendary Jazz Showcase. Under the leadership of Bob Lark, a renowned trumpeter and Director of Jazz Studies at DePaul University, DePaul's jazz ensemble has often performed with jazz icons contributing to their curriculum. Hamilton is ...
Continue ReadingJeff Hamilton Trio: Red Sparkle
by AAJ Italy Staff
Frutto di una collaborazione decennale e di una straordinaria intesa musicale, Red Sparkle documenta il dialogo e l'interplay di tre musicisti e la loro intensa affinità con il jazz. La scaletta ben congegnata parte con un pezzo di facile ascolto dai toni blues “Ain't That a Peach," dedicato al trombettista Snooky Young, seguito da una “Bye Ya" di Monk in veste 'latin,' e si chiude con un ottimo tributo a Duke Ellingtone, “In an Ellingtone". In mezzo troviamo di tutto, ...
Continue ReadingJeff Hamilton Trio: Red Sparkle
by Dan Bilawsky
When it comes to touch, taste, and a deep understanding of what makes a band swing, drummer Jeff Hamilton has no peers. Hamilton's recordings with everybody from Diana Krall and Rosemary Clooney to his own co-led Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra have marked him as a paragon of class and groove, and his place as the defining brush player of his generation was cemented long ago, but his legacy in jazz may ultimately be related to his trio work. ...
Continue ReadingAtsuko Hashimoto: Until the Sun Comes Up
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per il suo nuovo album in studio Atsuko Hashimoto sceglie di avvalersi della collaborazione di Jeff Hamilton alla batteria, capace di restituire robustezza ritmica e lavoro di retroguardia, e Graham Dechter alla chitarra, pronto nel ritagliarsi diversi momenti di primaria importanza timbrica e melodica. L'Hammond B3 della leader, oltre ad avvolgere l'intera tracklist in quell'alone di fascino e impregnarla di quei sapori che per brevità definiremo vintage, caratterizza in maniera determinante il mood complessivo di Until the Sun Comes Up. ...
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