An educator, performer, film score composer/actor, drummer and bandleader, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master (2004) and Kennedy Center Living Jazz Master Chico Hamilton is still going strong.
His always compelling music defies genre and manages to reach new audiences through works like the newly restored Original Ellington Suite (Blue Note, 2000) and Hamiltonia. (Joyous Shout!, 2007).
Hamilton took some time out of his busy schedule to talk with AAJ Contributor Maxwell Chandler about where he has been and what's still to come.
Check out Chico Hamilton: The Master at AAJ today!
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