Scott Hamilton & Friends at Sunset-Sunside

Around 1975 appeared a tenor saxophonist, Scott Hamilton, with Ben Webster's velvety sound and "prebop" phrasing, while all those of his age tried in the harsh style of Coltrane. His wise look and his "antique" tastes made the hipsters chuckle. Scott's art is to have amalgamated and crystallized the heritage of the past and modern non-modernist trends. in music, without grandiloquent speech, in all simplicity. By doing something new with old. A myth.

Vers 1975 apparut un saxophoniste ténor, Scott Hamilton, au gros son velouté à la Ben Webster et au phrasé « prébop » alors que tous ceux de son âge s'essayaient dans le style âpre de Coltrane...

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Around 1975 appeared a tenor saxophonist, Scott Hamilton, with Ben Webster's velvety sound and "prebop" phrasing, while all those of his age tried in the harsh style of Coltrane. His wise look and his "antique" tastes made the hipsters chuckle. Scott's art is to have amalgamated and crystallized the heritage of the past and modern non-modernist trends. in music, without grandiloquent speech, in all simplicity. By doing something new with old. A myth.

Vers 1975 apparut un saxophoniste ténor, Scott Hamilton, au gros son velouté à la Ben Webster et au phrasé « prébop » alors que tous ceux de son âge s'essayaient dans le style âpre de Coltrane. Son allure sage et ses goûts « antiquisants » firent ricaner les hipsters. L'art de Scott est d'avoir amalgamé et cristallisé l'héritage du passé et les tendances modernes non modernistes en musique, sans discours grandiloquents, en toute simplicité. En faisant du neuf avec du vieux. Un mythe.

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