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About Chico Hamilton
Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He came to prominence as sideman for Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie, and Lena Horne. Hamilton became a bandleader, first with a quintet featuring the cello as a lead instrument, an unusual choice for a jazz band in the 1950s, and subsequently leading bands that performed cool jazz, post bop, and jazz fusion.
Everything about Chico Hamilton →- Occupation
- composer, jazz musician, percussionist, film score composer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 20, 1921, September 21, 1921
- Died
- November 25, 2013
- Website
- http://www.joyousshout.com