Der US-amerikanische Schlagzeuger Chico Hamilton ist gestorben

Der am 21. September 1921 in Los Angeles geborene US-amerikanische Jazz-Schlagzeuger und Komponist Chico Hamilton (Bild) ist am 25. November 2013 in New York City gestorben.

Bild: Chico Hamilton beim Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in New York City 2007 – Foto: Professor Bop – CC-Lizenz: Namensnennung 2.0 US-amerikanisch (nicht portiert) – Zur Originaldatei: http://de.wikipedia.org/

Erst kürzlich, schon 92 Jahre alt, schloss er die Aufnahmen für «Inquiring Minds« ab, sein nun letztes Album. Die Aufnahmen waren Teil eines späten Comebacks von Forestorn »Chico» Hamilton, der die Höhepunkte seiner Karriere in den 1950er-Jahren gefeiert hatte.

http://www.derbund.ch/kultur/pop-und-jazz/Chico-Hamilton-ist-tot/story/19861761

Er war so cool, dass man ihn drängte, Jazzmusiker im Film darzustellen: Der Schlagzeuger und Bandleader Chico Hamilton war ein Star des West Coast Jazz. Bis ins hohe Alter galt er als Styler und Virtuose des Genres.

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/chico-hamilton-gestorben-tod-des-jazz-schlagzeugers-a-935862.html

West Coast jazz drummer, composer and educator Chico Hamilton, who attended high school with Charles Mingus and Dexter Gordon and went on to play with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie before launching his own influential band in the mid-1950s, died on Monday. He was 92.

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/5800838/jazz-drummer-chico-hamilton-dead-at-92

Chico Hamilton, a subtle and creative drummer, will probably always be better known for the series of quintets that he led during 1955-1965 and for his ability as a talent scout than for his fine drumming. Hamilton first played drums while in high school with the many fine young players (including Dexter Gordon, Illinois Jacquet, and Charles Mingus) who were in Los Angeles at the time.

http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Chico_Hamilton.html

Never among the flashiest or most muscular of jazz drummers, Mr. Hamilton had a subtle and melodic approach that made him ideally suited for the understated style that came to be known as cool jazz, of which his hometown, Los Angeles, was the epicenter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/arts/music/chico-hamilton-a-california-cool-jazzman-dies-at-92.html?_r=

His early work was rarely given its proper due and it was only relatively recently that he came to be recognised as a completely distinctive drum school all to himself – a superb instrumentalist with a highly individual sound, a talented bandleader and a jazz visionary who believed the music could tap a far broader range of resources than it usually did. Hamilton once described the drums as «very melodic … Very soft, graceful in motion as well as sound; a sensous, feminine instrument.»

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/nov/26/chico-hamilton

Mehr:

http://www.joyousshout.com/

https://myspace.com/chicohamilton

http://www.drummercafe.com/featured-musician/drummer-percussionist/chico-hamilton-1921-1913.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_Hamilton

Videos:

The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music – Jazz Legend Chico Hamilton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXUxp9qencM

Reunion with Buddy Collette, Chico Hamilton, Fred Katz, Barry Finnerty, Steve Turre #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j5v-a5tLQo

The Baron / Chico Hamilton