CHICO HAMILTON
THE MASTER

CHICO HAMILTON - THE MASTER For the first time ever on CD-VINYL REPLICA. He has performed with Dexter Gordon, Lionel Hampton, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. An educator, performer, film score composer, Actor, drummer and bandleader. In 1997, Hamilton received the New School University Jazz and Contemporary Music Programs' Beacons in Jazz Award in recognition for his "significant contribution to the evolution of Jazz". In 2002, he was awarded the WLIU-FM Radio Lifetime Achievement Award. At the IAJE in NYC January 2004, he was awarded a NEA Jazz Master Fellowship. In December 2006, US Congress confirmed the nomination of Hamilton to the President's Council on the Arts. In 2007, he received a Living Legend Jazz Award as part of The Kennedy Center's Jazz in Our Time Festival, as well as being awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts from The New School. Chico Hamilton is truly - the master! - a mix of cool jazz… Post bop… jazz fusion.