Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hong Kong traders named Liu Liang and Yang Lu-liang were as quiet as could be, seemed chiefly interested in eluding publicity. Canadians hoped they were also interested in grain, were moderately pleased fortnight ago to land a $5,300,000 order for barley. Last week Agriculture Minister Alvin Hamilton rose in Parliament to announce that the Red traders had expanded the order beyond his most optimistic hopes: just before taking off for Hong Kong, they signed a $60 million cash deal for 28 million bushels of wheat and 12,133,000 more bushels of barley...
...Hamilton billed the deal as the biggest sale since World War II. It pushes Communist China from nothing to third among Canada's grain customers (behind Britain and Japan), and will probably keep West Coast handlers busy until fall clearing the shipment, which will take upward of 100 ships to move...
...Catch Can," with particularly fine aid from Art Farmer. George Shearing gets the benefit of good angles and skilled use of colored lights during his piece. Then, after Big Maybelle, who is much reminiscent of Bessie Smith, and Chuck Berry, who is much reminiscent of cacophony, comes Chico Hamilton...
...Hamilton is perhaps the one drummer around, not excluding Shelly Manne and Buddy Rich, who can make a long solo sound like music. Apparently either the 'cello and flute were flat or someone sabotaged the recording, for the Quintet sounds rather flat. But the solo is typical of Hamilton's best work...
...same time, the initiates will enjoy the tight camerawork on the musicians. The closeup of Brookmeyer masked behind sunglasses and Guiffre bouncing energetically around the bandshell is a treat; so is the intense concentration of Hamilton during his solo. It is a commonplace of jazz that much rapport is lost in a large all-star program like Newport, and shots like these more than compensate...