Scott Hamilton Quartet - JazzAscona 2008

Scott Hamilton Quartet with special guests: Warren Vaché & John Allred

Paying at the New Orleans&Classics Festival in Ascona

Performing dates: 30/6 - 6/7 2008

Style: mainstream

USA/ D/ CH

FIRST TIME IN ASCONA!

Scott Hamilton and Olaf Polziehn: the duo of marvels! Hamilton is the most prominent living mainstream saxophonist. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1954, Hamilton established himself early on the USA jazz scene, for his beautiful sound and impeccable phrasing, evoking admiration from devotees of this style of music. His first recorded work, released in 1977 on Concord Label, is called "Scott Hamilton is A Good Wind Who Is Blowing Us N.1" and takes its name from an outstanding recording of Leonard Feather. But it is only the first of a memorable series of about 30 albums. Scott is highlighted playing in a variety of contexts, from small group to string orchestra, in collaboration with musicians like Ruby Braff and Dave McKenna. Having assimilated the lesson/study of John Coltrane, Scott continued to play in his favorite style, the one that originally turned him on to jazz: the great ballads composed by musicians like Dave Brubeck, Fats Waller, Illinois Jacquet, Benny Carter; and his other great passion, the blues. With him, beneath the plane-trees of JazzAscona, will be a pianist who is not only his good friend, but above all one of the best pianists of the European school, the German Olaf Polziehn, accompanied by his trio. Polziehn, impassioned, like Hamilton, since the beginning of his jazz career, by the world of standards, shows how it is possible to give new lifeblood to the tradition, thanks to his imagination, which lets loose in his improvisations and and to his expressive intensity. The quartet is rounded out by Giorgos Antoniou on bass and Steve Brown on drums.

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[terrryc]

It is great to hear that the Ben Webster/Flip Phillips/ Zoot Sims thing is being kept alive. Scott caught some $hit early in his career for being "too derivative". Scott sounds like Scott, which is fine with me. If you think you can do better, try to sit in with your suckass Cannonball Tenor and get your ass kicked......

[tonyknights1]

Love Scott but that trombone player...ugly git but what a player!..best trombone solo I think I've ever heard...bloody genius!

[golsno147]

My late brother regarded Vache as the great trumpeter of the 1980s-This is the first time I have heard him and am duly impressed. Hamilton is wonderful but I

prefer him on ballads where he ranks with Webster and Hawkins.

[Gibson175man]

What a performance - and what about Steve Brown on drums!

[ricksterjazz]

That is the MOST incredible trombone solo I have ever seen/heard. NOT to be believed. WOW-

[teepeetime]

Man, this is some swinging jazz. A shame Scott rarely plays in the Northeast anymore.

[jazztrbn77]

John Allred is one of the most melodic trombonists on the scene