Scott Hamilton
- MatchScott Hamilton
- 100%Houston Person
- 97%Ben Webster
- 80%Coleman Hawkins
- 76%Gene Ammons
- 60%Lester Young
- 53%Dexter Gordon
- 51%Cyrus Chestnut
- 50%Art Pepper
- 50%Lou Donaldson
- 47%Eliane Elias
Biography
12 September 1954, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. As a child, Hamilton began playing clarinet, on which he had a few lessons, and piano. He then briefly played blues harmonica in a rock n roll band. He took up tenor saxophone as a young teenager, teaching himself largely by listening to records in his fathers collection. These records were by jazzmen of the 30s and 40s, and Hamilton appeared on the scene as an apparent throwback to those times, recreating the tenor styling of... Read more