The first thing the Chico Hamilton Quintet had going for it was unusual instrumentation. The quintet built its sound around the cello, and featured guitar, bass, either flute or clarinet (with the ...

How do you make chamber jazz? Chico Hamilton did it utilizing a guitarist, a cellist, a bassist, a reedman, and of course a drummer. Lone Hill Jazz has reissued the complete studio recordings of this ...

Though Zen: The Music of Fred Katz was credited to and recorded by the Chico Hamilton quintet, Katz wrote and arranged the entire album. The tunes vary in identity, from a chamber-music duet to a ...

Jazz drummer Chico Hamilton, a linchpin of the West Coast jazz scene in the 1950s and '60s, died yesterday evening of natural causes in New York City, according to his publicist April Thibeault. He ...

Jazz drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton, who played with the likes of Lionel Hampton, Lena Horne and Duke Ellington before forming his own popular quintet, died on Nov. 25 in New York. He was 92.

Jazz drummer Chico Hamilton, a linchpin of the West Coast jazz scene in the 1950s and '60s, died yesterday evening of natural causes in New York City, according to his publicist April Thibeault. He ...

Bandleader, drummer and NEA jazz master Chico Hamilton has died. He was 92 years old. Born Foreststorn Hamilton in Los Angeles in 1921, Hamilton’s music career began with some notable high school ...