Chico Hamilton

ABOUT CHICO HAMILTON

American Jazz drummer and bandleader who has been the bandleader on more than fifty albums beginning in 1955.

In his early days he was in a band with Charles Mingus . He was in the film You'll Never Get Rich, released in 1941.

He was appointed to the President's Council on the Arts.

His brother is actor Bernie Hamilton .

He was Lena Horne's drummer for six years in the 1960s.