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Author: JeflerJohn
Date: 2013-01-28 11:40
Does anybody know if an attainable publication of this Ellington big band chart exists? Hoping to transcribe the Jimmy Hamilton clarinet lead but would love to get my hands on the score with parts if it exists.
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Author: MarlboroughMan
Date: 2013-01-28 14:48
Great chart, JelferJohn...don't know of any available sets of parts myself, and you're not likely to find anyone on this board who does know--though maybe one of the very few jazzers who frequent this board might surprise us. Maybe ask the question on the Sax-on-the-Web forum?
Good luck.
Eric
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Author: Joe Bloke
Date: 2013-01-28 17:12
I'd suggest trying to make contact with a Downbeat magazine staffer (via their website). Over the years they've printed various transcriptions (currently in the "Woodshed" section).
Thanks for bringing up a great name in jazz clarinet. For those that are unfamiliar with this wonderful player, following is his obit:
Jimmy Hamilton, 77, Clarinetist Integral to the Ellington Sound
By PETER WATROUS
Published: September 22, 1994
"Jimmy Hamilton, one of jazz's great clarinetists, who was a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra from 1943 to 1968, died on Tuesday in St. Croix Hospital in the United States Virgin Islands. He was 77 and lived on St. Croix.
The cause was congestive heart failure, said his granddaughter, Vivian Greenaway.
Mr. Hamilton played with a gorgeous, pure tone that helped define the sound of the Ellington orchestra. Ellington regularly relied on him for his improvisational abilities as well, and Mr. Hamilton quickly became one of the most important improvisers in the orchestra.
In the late 1950's, when Ellington and Billy Strayhorn changed their compositional palettes, Mr. Hamilton became more prominent in the orchestra, and his playing helped give the rich harmonies their distinctive texture. Mr. Hamilton also played tenor saxophone with the orchestra. Whereas his improvisations on clarinet are restrained, cool and glassy, his solos on tenor saxophone are brutal and coarse.
Mr. Hamilton began his career with the band leaders Lucky Millinder, Jimmy Mundy, Teddy Wilson and Eddie Heywood. After leaving Ellington in 1968, he moved to the Virgin Islands, where he stayed in virtual retirement, restricting his musical activity to playing local dates, a longstanding hotel job and giving lessons. In the 1980's, he occasionally worked with Mercer Ellington and in a brilliant band, Ellington's Spacemen, which performed at Carlos 1, a club in Manhattan. He also played with the clarinetist John Carter's clarinet quartet, Clarinet Summit, at the Public Theater in Manhattan, recording two albums on the India Navigation record label. Earlier in his career, he occasionally recorded as a band leader as well."
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Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2013-02-07 01:35
Part of the clarinet part (about 30 measures plus most of the cadenza) can be found in this dissertation on p. 50 and 52. <http://edt.ohiolink.edu/send-pdf.cgi/Reed Thomas T.pdf?osu1273146438> If you make a transcription, I'd love to have a copy.
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