ghost of miles Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 His publicist reports that he has passed away at the age of 92. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Well hell. That was an interesting musical life. Very interesting. RIP & much thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 damn - r.i.p. http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/11/26/rip-chico-hamilton/ http://tedpanken.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/r-i-p-chico-hamilton-september-20-1921-november-25-2013-two-wkcr-interviews-and-a-downbeat-blindfold-test/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Damn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunky Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 What an innings !! RIP and thanks for some great music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 92 ... I don't know if I wanna get that old ... saw him perform about fifteen years ago. A jazz personality of the type that's hard to find now that the old masters are all leaving us. I have the utmost respect for all those who are living such a long standing jazz life! R.I.P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Sorry to hear this. Love his Mosaic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 And was still recording as late as 2008. Thankful for his music, and love the recordings by the group with Lloyd and Szabo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyril Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Rest in peace, Chico Hamilton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.A.W. Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 (edited) http://jazztimes.com/sections/news/articles/112427-drummer-and-bandleader-chico-hamilton-dies-at-92And was still recording as late as 2008. Thankful for his music, and love the recordings by the group with Lloyd and Szabo.Yep, those dates were great. Edited November 26, 2013 by J.A.W. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Wood Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 RIP Chico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeway Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Sorry to hear this. Love his Mosaic. I dawdled on that one and missed it, to my continuing regret. Chico really set his own course. Always hip without being merely fashionable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Underrated all around, especially as a band-leader / cultivator of unusual and idiosyncratic musical talents. God speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imeanyou Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 92, that's a LOT of paradiddles. Been listening to his stuff a fair bit recently and really getting into it. A different drummer and no mistake. RIP, Chico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 (edited) And was still recording as late as 2008. Thankful for his music, and love the recordings by the group with Lloyd and Szabo. He had 2 new CDs (Euphoric and Revelation) released in 2011. His later years were extremely prolific for recordings. I saw him at Drom in October of 2012. He was only able to play about half the set. About 15 years previously when I heard him at the Knitting Factory, he was still in prime form. Edited November 26, 2013 by kh1958 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Schwartz Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Underrated all around, especially as a band-leader / cultivator of unusual and idiosyncratic musical talents. God speed. I like this summation Joe....RIP Foreststorm "Chico" Hamilton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 RIP, Chico. Loved his 50s group with Buddy Collette and Jim Hall, and also the 60s group with Charles Lloyd and Gabor Szabo. And he helped vault Eric Dolphy into national prominence! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Beat Steve Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 R.I.P. to a true legend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 (edited) Damn.... so sorry to hear this. But what an amazing musical life. Saw him just the once about 20 years ago with the 'Euphoria' group but it was a great evening and he was in absolutely A1 form. Thank you for the music and the Mosaic set will be spun this week. RIP.. Edited November 26, 2013 by sidewinder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyril Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 NY Times obit. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/arts/music/chico-hamilton-a-california-cool-jazzman-dies-at-92.html?_r=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Underrated all around, especially as a band-leader / cultivator of unusual and idiosyncratic musical talents. God speed. I think "unusual and idiosyncratic musical talent" best describes his own gifts! I was listening, about a month ago, to one of his Solid state records, The Gamut, I think it was, and was not allowed for even one second not to think what a strange record it was, one of those things where "good" or "bad" is not even a consideration, what the sole consideration was was that nobody - nobody - else could have even begun to make a record like this, never mind actually make this record. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Goren. Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Damn. My thoughts. Exactly. RIP Mr. Hamilton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 RIP, Chico. I remember in 1966 when I was in high school and starting to learn about jazz. Chico's impulse! records were among the few jazz albums that I might see in the record shops. I'm thinking of The Dealer and Chic, Chic, Chico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Time, touch, tone...the guy was a master drummer, period. He always had that "showbiz" thing going on, and sometimes....maybe not what I wanted, but no matter. It was honest, always, and he was masterful, always. You never heard a Chico Hamilton album that didn't have a Chico Hamilton groove to it, no matter what that groove was. NOW can we have this reissued in the US, please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted November 26, 2013 Report Share Posted November 26, 2013 Sad news. RIP Chico. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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