Scott Hamilton | Jazz review

Pizza Express, LondonThe Anglophile American saxophonist Scott Hamilton emerged in the 1970s as a young man playing an old jazz style: the song-based swing music of the prewar, pre-bebop era. On the face of it, the former Benny Goodman and Rosemary Clooney sideman has been doing the same thing ever since – except that now the fascination is in the fine-tuning and detail.Hamilton is in London until Thursday, with regulars John Pearce on piano, Dave Green on bass and Steve Brown on drums. ...

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