Jeff Hamilton

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So that's the Ray Brown Trio with Monty Alexander on piano and Jeff Hamilton, the great Jeff Hamilton, on drums.

They're playing a little St. Louis blues.

But of course...

He's also recorded five albums with the Cologne-based Subway Jazz Orchestra and joined the WDR Big Band as a guest musician in productions and concerts.

He's performed around the world with musicians like John Clayton, Kurt Elling, Maria Schneider, Benny Green, Jeff Hamilton, Ingrid Jensen, and Peter Evans, just to name a few.

And since 2026, Michael Kroll has been a professor of jazz trumpet at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg.

the notes for the album say it's inspired by the idea that no flower blooms without rain the music reflects the quiet strength that can emerge from difficult seasons transforming experience into sound with warmth clarity and lyrical depth The lineup here, Michael Kroll on trumpet, Konstantin Kromer on piano, Jakob Kuhnermann on bass, Fabian Roche on drums, and we've got a guest vocalist on a couple of tracks, Tamara Lukasheva, and she's originally from Odessa.

We're going to feature later on in the broadcast a John Coltrane set celebrating his 100th birthday, but we're going to begin with music that was inspired by some performances I saw here in San Diego.

One was the Jeff Hamilton Trio.

Jeff Hamilton is one of the premier drummers on the West Coast jazz scene, and another was Tamir Hendelman, and I found a recording of of a earlier jeff hamilton trio that included tamir hendelman so we're going to start there the name of this album is jeff hamilton trio live from san pedro it's a 2018 release and we're going to listen to the thelonious monk composition in walked bud Thank you.

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We heard the Jerome Kern composition, Yesterday's.

And that trio is Hampton Hawes on piano, Red Mitchell on bass, and Chuck Thompson on drums.

Before that, we heard two iterations of the Jeff Hamilton Trio from the album A New Chapter, which celebrates Jeff Hamilton's latest trio that includes Tokyo-based pianist Tarataka Uno, and a longtime trio member, bassist John Hamer.