Bobby Hamilton (musician)

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Robert "Bobby" Hamilton (* around 1935) is an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( drums , percussion , keyboards ).

Live and act

Hamilton, who came from Syracuse , worked 1960–65 (including with Al Shackman (or Rudy Stevenson) and Lisle Atkinson ) in the accompanying trio of Nina Simone , to be heard on albums such as Nina Simone at Newport (1960), Forbidden Fruit (1961) , Nina Simone at the Village Gate (1961) and In Concert (1964). He also played with Babatunde Olatunji and His Drums of Passion ( Hugh Life , 1962), the guitarist John Bishop ( Bishop's Whirl ) and around 1974 in the backing band of Dakota Staton ( Ms. Soul ).

Hamilton recorded the soul-jazz album Dream Queen under his own name around 1972 . In the field of jazz, according to Tom Lord , he was involved in 17 recording sessions between 1960 and 1974. In the late 1970s he appeared as a soloist in New York clubs; in the 1990s he was still active as a music organizer.

He is not to be confused with the Doo Wop singer of the same name .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Leveling the Playing Field: The Story of the Syracuse 8 , by David Marc, p. 281
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 28, 2020)
  3. ↑ New York Magazine August 27, 1979
  4. ↑ Note in Thirty , Volume 14 WTIU, 1990
  5. ↑ He submitted the single "How Come" / "Oh Yeah!" (Apt # 25018) to Apt Records, a sub-label of ABC-Paramount . See Galen Gart: First Pressings: The History of Rhythm & Blues: 1958 . Big Nickel Publications, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamilton, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and R&B musician (drums, percussion, keyboards)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1935