{"title":"Chico Hamilton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eChico Hamilton grew up in Los Angeles at a remarkable moment in that city's jazz history. His high school band at Jefferson High included Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet and Buddy Collette before any of them had made a record. After touring with Lionel Hampton at nineteen and army service from 1942 to 1946, he spent six years as Lena Horne's drummer, which put him on a first-name basis with everyone in American entertainment but kept him off the jazz bandstand. The 1952 break in Horne's European touring schedule freed him to join the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker, the pianoless chamber group whose light, airy sound caught a mood that nobody had quite named yet. He recorded with Mulligan's group for Pacific Jazz until 1955, then formed his own quintet, with cello, flute and reeds, guitar, bass and drums, an instrumentation with no precedent in jazz. The quintet appeared in the Alexander Mackendrick film \"Sweet Smell of Success\" (1957), with a score written by Hamilton and Elmer Bernstein, and at the Newport Jazz Festival documented in \"Jazz on a Summer's Day\" (1958). He assembled a second great quintet in 1962, this time with Charles Lloyd on tenor saxophone and flute, Gabor Szabo on guitar, George Bohanon on trombone and Albert Stinson on bass, a group that pointed toward the jazz-rock that was coming. Later editions of the quintet brought in Ron Carter, Larry Coryell and Arthur Blythe. He moved to New York in 1966, wrote film and television music, helped found the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and continued leading bands into his nineties. He died in New York on 25 November 2013, aged 92.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-chico-hamilton-quintet-chico-hamilton-quintet-1979-japanese-pacific-jazz-mono-vinyl-lp","title":"The Chico Hamilton Quintet - Chico Hamilton Quintet (1979 Japanese Pacific Jazz Mono Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Chico Hamilton Quintet - \u003cem\u003eChico Hamilton Quintet\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 1979 Japanese Pacific Jazz Mono Reissue (GXF 3140, King Record Co.)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1955 the drummer Chico Hamilton, fresh from Gerry Mulligan's pianoless quartet, put together a group unlike anything else on the West Coast. Instead of the usual front line he built it around Fred Katz's cello and Buddy Collette's flutes and reeds, with Jim Hall on guitar and Carson Smith on bass, and no piano at all. The cello and flute gave the quintet a light, woven, almost classical sound, and it became one of the defining chamber-jazz groups of the era. This is their debut, and it is also the first major recording by Jim Hall, then twenty-four, who contributes the tune \"Spectacular\" and arranges \"The Morning After\". Half the record was cut in the studio and half taped live at a Long Beach club called The Strollers, and it ranges from the delicate, drifting \"Blue Sands\" to \"Free Form\", a piece of collective free improvisation remarkably early for 1955.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quintet caught on quickly, turning up on film and festival stages and making the cello briefly seem like a natural jazz instrument. For Jim Hall it was the start of everything, and twenty years before he cut \u003cem\u003eConcierto\u003c\/em\u003e the warm, unhurried touch is already here. The group stands as a high point of the West Coast scene, proof that cool jazz could be intricate without turning cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the 1979 Japanese pressing on Pacific Jazz, manufactured by King Record Co. in mono as part of its Pacific Jazz 1800 series, wearing William Claxton's cover photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pacific Jazz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44077730857019,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/IMG_8421.jpg?v=1788134478"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/chico-hamilton.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}