Chico Hamilton Quintet

Chico Hamilton Quintet – The Sweet Smell Of Success (1957/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:43 minutes | 783 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Chico Hamilton had his first brush with Hollywood in 1957. Riding high on the popularity of his adventurous quintet of the time-reedist/flutist Paul Horn, bassist Carson Smith, cellist Fred Katz, guitarist John Pisano-he and the band were cast in Sweet Smell of Success, a gritty black-and-white film about a ruthless Walter Winchell-style, New York City tabloid-gossip columnist, J.J. Hunsecker, played by a dour Burt Lancaster, who wields his power like a club. The plot of this sharp-edged media satire thickens when J.J.’s younger sister, played by Susan Harrison, begins dating the clean-cut young jazz guitarist in the Chico Hamilton Quintet, Steve Dallas, played by Martin Milner. Tony Curtis turns in a brilliant performance as the unctuous Broadway press agent Sidney Falco, who would sell his own mother to get an item in J.J.’s column.

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Chico Hamilton Quintet – South Pacific In Hi-Fi (1959/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:37 minutes | 606 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The Chico Hamilton Quintet with Strings Attached is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton’s Quintet, recorded in 1958 and released on the Warner Bros. label. The album features some of the earliest released recordings of Eric Dolphy.

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Chico Hamilton Quintet – Drumfusion (1962/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:18 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Drumfusion is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton recorded in 1962 and released on the Columbia label.

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: “The music is melodic at times but not boppish, free in spots but not avant-garde. This is a continually infectious and inspiring band”.

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Chico Hamilton Quintet – Chico Hamilton Quintet In Hi Fi (1956/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:02 minutes | 610 MB | Genre: Jazz
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It is doubtful that any other combo leader in jazz has made the jump from sideman to maestro more rapidly or more uccessfully Than Chico Hamilton. The Los Angeles-born drummer, a sideman with name bands throughout the 1940s and subsequently member of Lena Hornes accompanying trio for several years, did not really get into action as a leader until 1955, when he formed his quintet.

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Chico Hamilton Quintet – Chico Hamilton Quintet (1956/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:42 minutes | 858 MB | Genre:
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This article is about the album recorded in 1956. For the album recorded in 1955, see Chico Hamilton Quintet featuring Buddy Collette.

Chico Hamilton Quintet is a live album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton, released on the Pacific Jazz label.

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