Scott Hamilton tenor saxophone, Toni Solà tenor saxophone, Gerard Nieto piano, Ignasi González double bass, Xavi Hinojosa drums.

Saxophonist Scott Hamilton (Providence, Rhode Island, USA) is one of the great representatives of what is known as “neo-traditionalism”, a trend that, in its time, championed the validity and vitality of jazz at its most classical. That is hardly surprising. Since he began his career in 1976, he has had the chance to work with Benny Goodman, Hank Jones, Roy Eldridge, Buddy Tate, Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims and Flip Phillips, his main backer. In his long career, Hamilton has travelled halfway around the planet, worked with musicians from all over the world and recorded dozens of albums, becoming a tenor sax legend. One of the musicians he has played with most since 2005 is Toni Solà from Barcelona, one of the best tenor sax players on our jazz scene. Together they recorded Eight Reasons to Listen to it (Swing Alley, 2005), as well as touring festivals and venues all over Europe. This time at the Jamboree, where they have performed several times, they will evoke the famous “tenor sax battles” of the bebop, hard bop and middle jazz era – encounters between Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Johnny Griffin, among others.