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The Chico Hamilton Quintet

The Chico Hamilton Quintet has been played on NTS shows including Donna Leake, with Blue Sands first played on 28 July 2017.

Chico Hamilton (Foreststorn Hamilton) (September 21, 1921, Los Angeles - died November 25, 2013) was a jazz drummer and bandleader.

He was born in Los Angeles in 1921 and was raised locally as the Central Avenue jazz scene was beginning to coalesce. In the 1940s, he performed with Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. He appears in the "March Milastaire" number in the film You'll Never Get Rich (1941) as part of the backing group supporting Fred Astaire. He was one of the…

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Blue Sands
Chico Hamilton Quintet
Pacific Jazz1955
Blue Sands
Chico Hamilton QuintetPacific Jazz1955
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Drums West
The Chico Hamilton Quintet
Music1959
Drums West
The Chico Hamilton QuintetMusic1959
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Granada
Fred Katz, Paul Horn, The Chico Hamilton Quintet
Pacific Jazz1957
Granada
Fred Katz, Paul Horn, The Chico Hamilton QuintetPacific Jazz1957
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Lady Gabor
The New Amazing Chico Hamilton Quintet
Impulse!1963
Lady Gabor
The New Amazing Chico Hamilton QuintetImpulse!1963
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El Toro
The New Amazing Chico Hamilton Quintet
Impulse!1963
El Toro
The New Amazing Chico Hamilton QuintetImpulse!1963
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Blue Sands
The Chico Hamilton Quintet
Fontana1957
Blue Sands
The Chico Hamilton QuintetFontana1957
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