Chico Hamilton
Foreststorn Hamilton
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Emerging from Los Angeles, Hamilton began his professional career before finishing high school, playing alongside Charles Mingus, Dexter Gordon and other future jazz figures. Early collaborations with Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and Lena Horne secured his reputation, and by the mid-1950s he recorded his debut as a leader and created a quintet that placed a cello at the front. The group appeared in…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
