Scott Hamilton, Paolo Birro, Alfred Kramer, Aldo Zunino Poinciana (2022) [24 88]

Scott Hamilton is a jazz tenor saxophonist associated with swing (music) and mainstream jazz.
He emerged in the 1970s and at the time he was considered to be one of the few musicians of real talent who carried the tradition of the classic jazz tenor saxophone in the style of Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins as well as Zoot Sims and Don Byas forward. He began playing in various rhythm & blues outfits in Providence (Rhode Island), but subsequently shifted to jazz and the tenor saxophone. In 1976 he moved to New York City at, in part the recommendation of Roy Eldridge.

In the recording of the festive summer concert with pianist SoRyang and Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, the string orchestra of Germany’s music schools, conducted by Wolfgang Hentrich from the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein on August 1, 2021, an attractive selection of works can be heard with Edvard Grieg’s Suite "From Holberg’s Time", the 2nd Piano Concerto in F minor by Frédéric Chopin, as well as Roland Baumgartner’s Gondellied Variation for piano, harp and string orchestra, in which the composer resorted to the Venetian Gondola Song from Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Songs without Words.