Chico Hamilton
Chico Hamilton
Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton,was an American jazz drummer and bandleader...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth20 September 1921
CountryUnited States of America
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In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.
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That's what the name of the game is today: excitement. I'm not doing this just to please myself, although I do hope that it can become successful.
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Coming out of the big bands, I started accompanying, and I guess that is what led up to it. Because I learned quite a bit, by being an accompanist.
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Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people.
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Most people would be disappointed, myself particularly, if I were to come up with the sound of the early 'sixties, or of the 'fifties even.
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And it's impossible for me to have those players play with me at this stage of the game; all those guys are famous and, I suppose, wealthy now.
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I've changed my drumming considerably. I've had to, in order to play this way, in order to have a fulfilment with regard to the overall sound.
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At Ronnie's, we had young kids who enjoyed it so much they came in every night. Something else - a lot of the old jazz diehards dug it, too.
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You know, there are a lot of jazz players that aren't as contemporary as these young pop players are; they haven't kept up with it.
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We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them.
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I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern - mankind.
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I don't dig staying in one groove.
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I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines.
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I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.