Chico Hamilton Quintet - Blue Sands live

[aarfeld]

Fascinating seeing Eric Dolphy just before he launched his own brilliantly unique but tragically short-lived career.

[leahselvidge]

Happy 90th birthday Chico!

[22Burnette]

Nice!

[recordingautist]

oops. I just got a jazzboner.

[kanganko]

john coltrane at 0:20 ?

[bebinonins]

Chris Wood from Traffic decided to start playing the flute after watching this.

[nassreiskulturen]

@bebinonins Really?



[bebinonins]

@nassreiskulturen Yes. I have an old interview from Rolling Stone in which he says it.

[nassreiskulturen]

@bebinonins Great!

[arielterr]

hELLO, FRIENDS , i WANT DENISE, OR NOMAD ALBUM, i HAVE REAL VINYAL BUT DONT KNOW HOW TO SHARE IT ....yET.

[undyinluvmj]

I was first introduced to jazz at the age of 18 in NY by watching a Chico Hamilton show in the east village. The experience never left me and I've been a jazz fan ever since. Love the intricacies of the music and the rotating solos. I couldn't believe that jazz can actually be scored! Love Chico, Kenny Burrell, etc. Nothing like being in an intimate jazz venue and just feeling the music!

[MichaelDurenMusic199]

jim halls killer in this video

[MrBillyNaegele]

@MichaelDurenMusic199 That's actually San Salvador not Jim Hall.

[MrBillyNaegele]

@MichaelDurenMusic199 Whoops! I meant John Pisano!

[JoeTheJerk]

Reminds me of Radiohead's "Videotape"

[MichaelDurenMusic199]

@JoeTheJerk that's a great song

[scouttyboy13]

Excellent video quality and sound a real treat. Thank you for posting.

[mikew4001]

Nick Mason took this track as main inspiration for his drum patterns on the classic Pink Floyd track "Set The Controls Of The Heart Of The Sun" in 1968.

[WhiteCamry]

Nine years later Felix Pappalardi stole so much of this arrangement and gave it to Cream for "We're Going Wrong" on the "Disraeli Gears" album.

[Marabutorrance]

Blue Sands

[odeonparis]

Just "Jazz On a Summer's Day" - no "Hot"

[ailegio]

Guys can someone please post ''magic fingers" from Chico Hamilton's ''Nomad'' album on youtube?

The song is so great and it really needs to be posted it's such a shame the song hasn' t been posted yet but its quality is so grand...

[MikeyRed76]

Who could possibly dislike this and why?

[cometothesabbat]

@MikeyRed76 We may never know, but for some strange reason there is nothing that pleases everybody, some people even curse the sun, and a die-hard booze addict might at certain times even hit the dislike button for water. This song is fantastic, and like nothing else in the world!

[mrwrong7]

This piece is mesmerizing. The film was directed by photographer who had before had mostly worked with still images.

[halfjapanesenirvana]

I love the hypnotic drum solo. not typical of jazz drumming in 1958. more like Can.

[mcbeer4]

the guitarist is Gabor Szabo

[cometothesabbat]

@mcbeer4 No, it is not Gabor Szabo, but in fact this guitar player, John Pisano, was the guy who recommended to Chico Hamilton that he should let Gabor take over the guitar when he left the band. Gabor played with them in 1960 and was fired after a short run, and then rejoined the band a year later and stayed with them until 1965. At least so I read... This guitar player John Pisano, "interestingly" enough, *cough*, later played on many famous Herb Alpert albums...

[mcbeer4]

@cometothesabbat I stand corrected, thanks. Being a Chico fan, let me recommend to all my favorite album, Man From Two Worlds.

[rtw1313]

@cometothesabbat Don't forget the many albums that Pisano did with Joe Pass as well. Unless something has changed fairly recently, Pisano still plays every Tuesday at a place called Spazio's in Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles area) and invites a guest or two to join in. It's a real thrill and sometimes the old-timers come out to listen too. I actually asked him about the solo in this piece and he basically said he ripped it off from Heitor Villa Lobos :-).

[Lasford7]

@rtw1313 I think John has moved from Spazio`s to a venue called Vitellos,not that I can get there on a Tues as I live inthe Uk.Lovely man.

[sir0archero]

very big piece of shit

[ratoncito70]

Jim Hall

[cholocharile]

amazing guitar

[sarahsoccer125]

that guitarist is surreal

[RiversideIndian]

who's the guitarist?

[flippeters]

John Pisano

[ThomasD1962]

Just saw the movie (documentary actually).

Chico is the highlight for me!

He has another new fan in me.

[jerryhellstone]

you won't hear many like this. what a piece of work

[DARTAGNAN2010]

fascinating !

[deadredeyes]

If anybody knows the song that they play earlier in the film, in their hotel room, please let me know. I can't find any information on it anywhere.

[Beauxdeauxfinglok]

One of the most moving drum solos on record. There are countless others, but this just gives me goosebumps.

[nnacsa]

beautiful, but the guitar part is a Villa-Lobos´s study for acoustic guitar. etude par guitar numero un.

[callo5u5]

i wish theyd show the drumset :(. not just the sticks. i wanna see wat exactly hes doing.

[herblore]

is that eric dolphy on flute?

[mandolaman12]

Yes I believe it is, not Buddy Collette, who was the regular flute player for Mr Mallets. Amazing song, always been a favourite of mine

[AeroplanoModello]

Yes!

[Isotonic1964]

wicked piece! Chico Hamilton has a new fan.

[egypt206]

This is my favourite scene of one of my favourite films! Hypnotizing!

[lromfried]

I saw this film when it came out in the '50s. This was the piece that blew me away. Great band! Then I saw him years later with Charles Lloyd in the Village. It's been more than 50 years and I just bought Chico's latest LP from ITunes. I still love his music!

[darthsaxus77]

Wow. what a great find. the video stream quality is amazing. what was the format you posted in?