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Jimmy Hamilton
real name James Hamilton
Jimmy Hamilton is credited on 2,399 releases across 523 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
2,399
Credits
523
Albums
8
Decades active
205
In collections
Biography
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American jazz clarinet and tenor saxophone player, born May 25, 1917 in Dillon, South Carolina, died September 20, 1994 in St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
2,399 releases · 523 albums · active 1951–2025
- Performance · 4,512
- Other credits · 856
- Production · 3
Studios: Newport Jazz Festival · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Carnegie Hall · RCA Studio A
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Ellington Indigos
1958
Money Jungle
1962
Ellington At Newport
1956
Masterpieces By Ellington
1951
Blues In Orbit
1960
First Time! The Count Meets The Duke
1962
Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder (From The Sound Track Of The Motion Picture)
1959
Ellington Uptown
1953
Jingle Bell Jazz
1962
Duke Ellington's Greatest Hits
1967
Such Sweet Thunder
1957
Francis A. & Edward K.
1968
Duke Ellington's Liberian Suite
1949
Ballads
1978
Ella At Duke's Place
1966
"The Golden Years" Volume II
1966
Ellington '66
1965
Side By Side
1960
Duke Ellington His Piano And His Orchestra At The Bal Masque
1959
Ellington At Newport 1956 (Complete)
1999
The Versatile Giant
1978
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
1975
The Original Recordings
1973
This Is Duke Ellington
1971
Frequent collaborators
- Duke Ellington
- Duke Ellington And His Orchestra
- Various
- Johnny Hodges
- Billie Holiday
- Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Louis Armstrong
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