“There are two kinds of music; good music and the other kind” - Duke Ellington (maybe) 😎.
Ben Webster? Without a doubt; although Hamilton sounds a little bit more modern. Similar feel and similar breathy tone and way of starting each note. As jazz tenor sound evolved it would have a little less air in the tone, and vibrato that is not as exaggerated; but it also lost that hard to describe singing quality in the high register. Webster had a distinctive quality in the way he would slide into a note; almost like putting a little smile on it. Broadly speaking, I hear Hamilton’s tone as being a decade or two in the direction of what most today would call a “modern” tenor sound and I would bet he also listened to players like Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. Nice clips. I like Scott Hamilton a lot; very classy and swinging player. There are very few tenor players paying like that today.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u_GfWfgytLI
Ben Webster? Without a doubt; although Hamilton sounds a little bit more modern. Similar feel and similar breathy tone and way of starting each note. As jazz tenor sound evolved it would have a little less air in the tone, and vibrato that is not as exaggerated; but it also lost that hard to describe singing quality in the high register. Webster had a distinctive quality in the way he would slide into a note; almost like putting a little smile on it. Broadly speaking, I hear Hamilton’s tone as being a decade or two in the direction of what most today would call a “modern” tenor sound and I would bet he also listened to players like Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. Nice clips. I like Scott Hamilton a lot; very classy and swinging player. There are very few tenor players paying like that today.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u_GfWfgytLI