Home » Jazz Articles » Scott Hamilton
Jazz Articles about Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live In Bern
by Bruce Lindsay
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 ...
Continue ReadingThe Jazz Coin: Scott Hamilton & John Escreet
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
Continue ReadingScott Hamilton and Friends at Dinkelspiel Auditorium Stanford University, Stanford California
by Bill Leikam
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, ...
Continue ReadingScott Hamilton: Live at Nefertiti
by Jakob Baekgaard
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 ...
Continue ReadingPatty Wicks: Dedicated To…
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingScott Hamilton: Is Expatriatism on the Rise?
by Nick Catalano
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 ...
Continue ReadingScott Hamilton & Friends: Across the Tracks
by Chris May
A tenor saxophonist standing foursquare and unreconstructed in the tradition established by Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Illinois Jacquet, Scott Hamilton is considered so uncool in some quarters that to admit you enjoy him is to risk being shunned by hip society.
Now in his mid-fifties and playing a brand of jazz that was at its peak before he was born, Hamilton hasn't deviated from his style since his debut album, Scott Hamilton Is A Good Wind Who ...
Continue Reading
