David Murray and Hal Singer with Andy Hamilton and the Blue Notes (cbso.mp4 by onlinejones)

David Murray has been described as the best Sax player in the world, and it's impossible to deny his sheer technical excellence and his ability to stack up a mental database of available notes for those blistering solos he comes up with.

What David Murray said of Andy Hamilton is " My hero - it’s his tone – it knocks me out"

For everyone else it's a thrill that David Murray should want to come and play with Andy, and that he should bring his friend Hal "Cornbread" Singer. Hal, like Andy a Tenor Sax playing veteran well into his 80s, got his nickname Cornbread back in 1947 when he had an R&B hit with an instrumental of that name

Singer and Murray played two gigs with Andy Hamilton. The first was at Andy's Thursday night Jazz Club at Corks Club in Bearwood and the second at the prestigious CBSO Centre in Birmingham where this video was taken. It also features Andy's son Graeme Hamilton on Trumpet.

Recently Andy has played with top class guests such Dennis Rollins and Jamaican Jazz vets, Russell Henderson and Sonny Bradshaw and Myrna Hague as well as Murray and Singer. He has also played at the South African and Glasgow Jazz Festivals, and the boost that all this has given to his playing has been phenomenal. Most recently Enrique Plá, the drummer from Grammy winning Cuban band Irakere played with Andy at Bearwood Corks Club

Bearwood Jazz

Andy Hamilton's Jazz

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