Eldridge also paved the way for him to work with Anita O’Day and Hank Jones. He moved to New York in 1976 at the age of twenty-two, and through Roy Eldridge, with whom he had played a year previously in Boston, got a six-week gig at Michael’s Pub. From playing mainly blues on mouth organ, his little band gradually became more of a jazz band.
Even at that age he was attracted to the sound of Johnny Hodges, but it was not until he was about sixteen that he started playing the saxophone seriously. He had some clarinet lessons when he was about eight years of age, but that was the only formal music tuition he has ever had. He tried out several instruments, including drums at the age of about five, piano at six and mouth-organ. During his early childhood he heard a lot of jazz through his father’s extensive record collection, and became acquainted with the jazz greats. Scott Hamilton was born in 1954, in Providence, Rhode Island. “As for Scott Hamilton, he is playing more swinging, inventive, and hot tenor sax than anyone else on the scene today” – DownBeat First comes the voice, the inimitable, assured sound of his tenor saxophone, then the informal style and finally the amazing fluency and eloquent command of the jazz language.” – Dave Gelly, The Guardian
SCOT HAMILTON WRITER FULL
“Following a Scott Hamilton solo is like listening to a great conversationalist in full flow. Since then he has recorded over 40 albums for Concord. Scott became a Concord recording artist in 1977, the huge publicity that followed guaranteeing a heady round of clubs, festivals and recordings around the world. He has recorded with some of the best pianists in the business (Tommy Flanagan, Gene Harris, John Bunch, Norman Simmons), as well as having played with Benny Goodman and Rosemary Clooney. With his trademark of a relaxed, elegant, warm and deep but effortless sound, Hamilton puts his own stamp on his style. He still successfully bridges the gap between swing and bop with a fluency and elegance that not many players achieve. His big, warm, golden saxophone tone and perfect sense of swing carries on the tradition of the classic jazz tenor masters in the style of Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins as well as Zoot Sims and Don Byas. Scott Hamilton is a true living legend and one of the all time great American Tenor Saxophone players.
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