Drummer Chico Hamilton's contribution to West Coast jazz and quintet jazz in general is largely overlooked today. Partially eclipsed by the more explosive drummers of the late 1950s and 1960s, Hamilton's high-energy brushwork and wasp-wings time-keeping technique set new standards that were widely imitated for years on both coasts.
Chico is perhaps best …
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