Jazz Articles about Scott Hamilton

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Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live In Bern

by Edward Blanco
October 27, 2015

Scheduled to play at the International Jazz Festival in the city of Bern, Switzerland in 2014, festival founder Hans Zurbrugg asked drummer Jeff Hamilton to bring his trio as the center-piece of the festivities that week. Also there the same week was saxophonist great Scott Hamilton adding another master of the jazz idiom to the lineup of jazz stars. Interestingly enough, the two Hamilton's had never recorded together and as fortune would have it, the saxophonist was not under a ...

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Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live In Bern

by Bruce Lindsay
October 1, 2015

Saxophone master Scott Hamilton and drum maestro Jeff Hamilton have over four decades of experience each in the world of mainstream, swinging, jazz. Despite those many years on the scene Live In Bern is their first release together. It's been a long wait, but it's been worth it. Before the important discussion--about the music--a word about the band and the album title. This isn't an album by the “Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio"--to be accurate, it's Scott ...

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The Jazz Coin: Scott Hamilton & John Escreet

by C. Michael Bailey
September 23, 2013

Twenty-first century jazz has a greater breadth and depth than any time previously. Granularity in jazz genre has become so reduced that genre designations are almost meaningless. In jazz, we are approaching a time when jazz will no longer be “jazz" but music in the most liberal sense of the word. But, until that time, we will have contrasts like those heard from tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton and pianist John Escreet. Scott Hamilton Swedish Ballads...and ...

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Scott Hamilton and Friends at Dinkelspiel Auditorium Stanford University, Stanford California

by Bill Leikam
March 23, 2012

Scott Hamilton and Friends Stanford Jazz Festival--40th AnniversaryDinkelspiel AuditoriumStanford, CaliforniaFebruary 24, 2012As a part of the 40th anniversary of the Stanford Jazz Festival, Scott Hamilton took to the stage to a nearly sold out crowd for a powerful evening of jazz. Hamilton is one of the most highly respected and sought after tenor saxophonists in the world. The Larry Vuckovich Trio formed the core players for the event--pianist Larry Vuckovich, bassist Jeff Chambers, ...

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Scott Hamilton: Live at Nefertiti

by Jakob Baekgaard
January 29, 2010

Jazz isn't always about breaking new ground in terms of sound and genre. It's just as important to preserve the music of the masters, and nobody carries the torch of tradition more elegantly than tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton. His heroes include Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young--in short, the founding fathers of swing saxophone playing.

Paradoxically, Hamilton was something of a rare bird when he first emerged on the scene back in the seventies because of his emphasis on ...

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Patty Wicks: Dedicated To…

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 11, 2009

In Dedicated To... Patti Wick è impeccabile; come pure i compagni di viaggio, che hanno tuttavia il torto di lesinare soluzioni personali, sicuri di far leva su un repertorio eterogeneo e di sicura presa. Prevale un modo impeccabile quanto scarno nell'andamento solistico, poco graffiante ed incisivo e la relativa brevità di molti brani conferma la sensazione che i musicisti non abbiano scavato a fondo nelle varie composizioni. Sotto tono pure la guest star Scott Hamilton, pronto ad eseguire il proprio ...

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Scott Hamilton: Is Expatriatism on the Rise?

by Nick Catalano
February 8, 2009

During my years as a jazz writer I have spent considerable time interviewing and writing about musicians who, for one reason or another, decided to pack up and establish permanent residency outside the United States. Many of the old beboppers (Art Farmer, Johnny Griffin, Ed Thigpen and others) whom I had encountered through the years were literally forced to leave (if they wanted to keep performing their art music) because of the rock n'roll juggernaut. During the period of the ...