Amarillo College, in collaboration with The Amarillo Jazz Society,  is hosting jazz and world music guitarist, bassist and UNT jazz professor Fred Hamilton.

Monday, March 2, 2009

• 3:00 — Jazz Improvisation (Amarillo College Music Building Band Room)
• 4:00 — Guitar Clinic (Amarillo College Music Building Band Room)
• 7:00 — CONCERT (Amarillo Concert Hall Theater)
  

I have been invited to accompany him, and will be working to see if we can get some sort of world fusion (that’s right,  I used the “F” word) vibe happening. What else would you call it? A Lone Star Jugalbandi?

Fred Hamilton is a guitarist, bassist, composer, recording artist, author, clinician, and professor in the Jazz Studies Division of the University of North Texas. He has recorded one album as a leader (Looking Back on Tommorow) with David Friesen and Ed Soph, numerous albums as a sideman and is a founding member of the Earl Harvin Trio, which has recorded four albums.

Fred is also an original member of the ensemble Brahma, featuring Poovalur Srinivasan on mridangam, Ed Smith on vibes, and Jamal Mohamed on percussion. Brahma plays a fusion of jazz, Indian, Arabic and Balinese styles. In this ensemble Fred plays banjo, acoustic guitar, and the Hindustani slide guitar.

He has played bass or guitar with visiting artists such as Bill Frisell, Joe Lovano, Cedar Walton, Mike Stern, George Garzone, David Liebman, Marvin Stamm, Bill Mays, and Dave Pietro.

Fred teaches and performs at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops, held at the University of Louisville, and the University of North Texas Combo Camp. In previous years he was on the summer faculty of the Mile High Jazz Camp at the University of Colorado, the Great Plains Jazz Camp at Emporia State University and has taught workshops at the University of Washington, University of Southern California, the University of Arkansas and others.

He has held positions on the faculties of Concordia College in Montreal (1984-85), St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (1982-84), and Bowling Green State University in Ohio (1979-82).

While in graduate school at the University of Northern Colorado, he taught jazz courses as a graduate teaching assistant and was one of the first handful of writers chosen to begin the UNC Jazz Press. Initially, compositions for combo and big band and later for guitar ensemble were included in the catalogue.

He also did a tour of duty in the U.S. Air Force from 1972-76 as a guitarist and arranger with the NORAD Command Band.

http://www.fredhamilton.com/

Here are some educational YouTube videos of Fred:

• Fred Hamilton Comping Lesson Part 1
• Fred Hamilton Jazz Chords Lesson
• Fred Hamilton Improv Lesson
• Fred Hamilton Improv Lesson 2
• Fred Hamilton Shell Voicings 251 Lesson
• Fred Hamilton Comping Lesson Part 2

Directions

The Amarillo College Concert Hall Theater is right next to The Amarillo Museum of Art and the Amarillo College Music Building.
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Jim Laughlin – sax
Carlos Casso – sax
Robert Hines – trumpet
Dustin Adams – keys
Joe Kwan – bass
Terrance McDaniel – drums

Thanks to Mardy Lemmons and Lindsay London for the photos.

Jim Griffin: Sitar

Dustin Adams: Tabla