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 Remembering Jimmy Hamilton, on what would have been his 100th birthday
Author: ruben 
Date:   2017-05-26 23:21

When I was a teenager, I had the good fortune to get to know Jimmy Hamilton, the great clarinstist of the Duke Ellington Orchestra for some 25 years. I still have the clarinet that he played for 10 years and which he used for so many wonderful recordings and performances: a Leblanc LL, which I keep in tip-top repair.
Jimmy Hamilton was Classically trained: a student of Leon Russianoff, who considered him one of his most gifted students. Besides playing the clarinet, he was an arranger and had the privilege of being one of the only arrangers Duke Ellington used on a regular basis, the other one being, of course, Billy Strayhorn.
Jimmy Hamilton spent the last 25 years of his life playing, teaching, doing instrument repairs, composing and arranging in the Virgin Islands, where he happily settled, after the rigors of being on the road for 30 years.
Question: is there anybody out there that studied with him? Also, I have been trying to get my hands-unsuccessfully-on compositions he wrote for clarinet trio and quartet. I played a couple with him, Harry Carney and Russel Procope when I was 16 years of age. These pieces seem to have disappeared. I would love to record and perform them as a tribute to him on his his 100th birthday. The famous "Pretty and the Wolf" with Ellington narrating, is by Jimmy Hamilton.
Thank you!

rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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