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| Jimmy Hamilton | |
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.jpg) Jimmy Hamilton and Harry Carney, Aquarium NYC, ca. November 1946. Photography by William P. Gottlieb. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | James Hamilton |
| Born | 25 May 1917 Dillon, South Carolina, United States |
| Died | 20 September 1994 (aged 77) St. Croix, Virgin Islands |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Instruments | Clarinet, saxophone |
| Associated acts | Duke Ellington |
Jimmy Hamilton (25 May 1917 – 20 September 1994) was an American jazz clarinetist, tenor saxophonist, arranger, composer, and music educator, best known for his twenty-five years with Duke Ellington.
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Biography [link]
Hamilton was born in Dillon, South Carolina, and grew up in Philadelphia. Having originally learnt to play piano and brass instruments, in the 1930s he started playing the latter in local bands, before switching to clarinet and saxophone. In 1939 he played with Lucky Millinder, Jimmy Mundy, and Bill Doggett, going on to join the Teddy Wilson sextet in 1940. After two years with Wilson, he played with Eddie Heywood and Yank Porter.
In 1943 he replaced Barney Bigard in the Duke Ellington orchestra, and stayed with Ellington until 1968. His style was very different on his two instruments: on tenor saxophone he had an R&B sound, while on clarinet he was much more precise and correct, though fluent. He wrote some of his own material in his time with Ellington.
After he left the Ellington orchestra Hamilton played and arranged on a freelance basis, before spending the 1970s and 1980s in the Virgin Islands teaching music. On his retirement from teaching he continued to perform with his own groups from 1989 to 1990. Hamilton died in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, at the age of seventy-seven.
Discography [link]
As leader [link]
- 1953: "Big Fifty"/"Rockaway Special" (States Records)[1]
- 1954: Jimmy Hamilton Orchestra (Jazz Kings)
- 1955: Jimmy Hamilton (Urania)
- 1960: Swing Low Sweet Clarinet (Everest)
- 1961: It's About Time (Swingville)
- 1961: Can't Help Swinging (Prestige)
- 1985: Rediscovered Live at the Buccaneer (Who's Who in Jazz)
- 1991: Jimmy Hamilton & the New York Jazz Quintet (Fresh Sound)
- 1997: Sweet but Hot (Drive Archive)
- 1999: Jazz in July: at the Lafayette Club (Hambone Records)
- 1999: Live at the Buccaneer (Jazz Time)
As sideman [link]
With Clarinet Summit
- In Concert at the Public Theater (1984)
- Southern Bells (1987)
References [link]
- ^ Pruter, Robert; Campbell, Robert L. and Kelly, Tom "The United and States Labels Part I" Accessed August 25, 2009
External links [link]
- Jimmy Hamilton — brief biography by Scott Yanow, for AllMusic.
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Jimmy Hamilton (footballer, born 1904)
James "Jimmy" Hamilton (born 1904 Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham — died post 1939) was an English, retired professional footballer who played as a half-back for Crystal Palace, Gateshead and Hartlepools United. He also managed Hartlepools United.
Playing career
Hamilton was in London, serving with the Coldstream Guards, when he had a successful trial with Crystal Palace in 1922. He signed for the club in December that year and made his debut the following October against Bradford City. He was a regular in the team over the following eight seasons making a total of 180 league appearances, scoring four goals. In 1931 he moved to Hartlepools United where he captained the side and made 49 appearances, before moving to Gateshead in 1933 where he served as player-coach. In 1935 he returned to Hartlepools United, as manager, a post he held up until the Second World War.
Hamilton also represented the Army at boxing.
References
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Jimmy Hamilton (curler)
James "Jimmy" Hamilton was the lead man on the Kilgraston & Moncrieffe CC (from Perth, Scotland) during the 1963 World Curling Championships known as the Scotch Cup.
References
Mbizo
Mbizo is a high density suburb in Kwekwe. It is located east of the city center across the railway line from ZIMASCO, the ferro-chrome producer. The suburb is divided into several sections all numbered one up to twenty. Mbizo Section One and Two form the oldest part of the suburb, which were originally built to house cheap labour for the gold mines in up town. Mbizo Stadium is located across from section one. nearby, Manunure High School sprawls in a meadow across the street from section two.
Background
The suburb, as is everything in Zimbabwe's main towns and cities, was formally a black only area, reserved for the poor and African population that streamed to the town in search of jobs. Together with Amaveni, Mbizo supplied the much needed labour to the gold mines scattered across the growing town. Since independence, the population of the suburb has exploded and the suburb itself has expanded from two sections numbered one and two, to eighteen. Most of these sections have extensions called 'one extension' and so forth.
Podcasts:
Jimmy Hamilton
ALBUMS
- As Time Goes By released: 2004
- Can't Help Swingin' released: 1999
- Sweet but Hot released: 1997
- Jimmy Hamilton and the New York Jazz Quintet released: 1991
- Southern Bells released: 1987
- Rediscovered at the Buccaneer released: 1985
- It's About Time released: 1961
