Passin' Thru (Chico Hamilton album)

Passin' Thru
Studio album by Chico Hamilton
Released February 1963[1]
Recorded September 18 & 20, 1962
Genre Jazz
Length 37:44
Label Impulse!
Chico Hamilton chronology
Drumfusion
(1960)
Passin' Thru
(1962)
A Different Journey
(1963)

Passin' Thru is an album by American jazz drummer Chico Hamilton featuring performances recorded in September 1962 and released in February 1963 on the Impulse! label.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat[3]
Allmusic[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[5]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Drummer Chico Hamilton's debut on Impulse featured his fifth Quintet, an advanced hard bop unit that sometimes hinted a little at the avant-garde... this was a major band".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Lloyd except as indicated
  1. "Passin' Thru" – 8:16
  2. "The Second Time Around" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:11
  3. "El Toro" (Chico Hamilton, Charles Lloyd, Gabor Szabo) – 4:39
  4. "Transfusion" – 2:42
  5. "Lady Gabor" (Gábor Szabó) – 13:15
  6. "Lonesome Child" – 5:41
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 18, 1962 (tracks 1-4) and September 20, 1962 (tracks 5 & 6)

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Jazz Special Merit Album". Billboard. Vol. 75 no. 7. 16 Feb 1963. p. 30. Retrieved 16 Feb 2015.
  2. ↑ Impulse! Records discography accessed March 18, 2011
  3. ↑ Down Beat: May 9, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 11
  4. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed March 18, 2011
  5. ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 92. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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