For the English footballer nicknamed Chico Hamilton, see Ian Hamilton Chico Hamilton (Foreststorn Hamilton) (September 21 1921, Los Angeles) is a jazz drummer. Legendary jazz drummer and bandleader Foreststorn Chico Hamilton, born September 21st, 1921 in Los Angeles, had a fast track musical education in a band with his schoolmates Charles Mingus, Illinois Jacquet, Ernie Royal, Dexter Gordon, Buddy Collette and Jack Kelso. Engagements with Lionel Hampton, Slim & Slam, T-Bone Walker, Lester Young, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnett, Billy Eckstine, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Billie Holiday, Gerry Mulligan and six years with Lena Horne established this young West Coast prodigy as a jazz drummer on the rise, before striking out on his own as a bandleader in 1955. Chico appears in the March Milastaire number in the film ?You'll Never Get Rich? (1941) as part of the backing group supporting Fred Astaire, and

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