Passin' Thru (Chico Hamilton album)

Passin' Thru is an album by American jazz drummer Chico Hamilton featuring performances recorded in September 1962 and released in February 1963 on the Impulse! label.^[2]

Passin' Thru
Studio album by Chico Hamilton
Released	February 1963^[1]
Recorded	September 18 & 20, 1962
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	37:44
Label	Impulse!
Producer	Bob Thiele
Chico Hamilton chronology
Drumfusion (1960) Passin' Thru (1963) A Different Journey (1963)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat	^[3]
Allmusic	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[5]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars, with Scott Yanow's review stating: "Drummer Chico Hamilton's debut on Impulse featured his fifth Quintet, an advanced hard bop unit that sometimes hinted a little at the avant-garde... this was a major band".^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Lloyd except as noted

1. "Passin' Thru" – 8:16
2. "The Second Time Around" (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:11
3. "El Toro" (Chico Hamilton, Charles Lloyd, Gabor Szabo) – 4:39
4. "Transfusion" – 2:42
5. "Lady Gabor" (Gábor Szabó) – 13:15
6. "Lonesome Child" – 5:41

• Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, on September 18, 1962 (tracks 1-4), and September 20, 1962 (tracks 5 & 6)

Personnel

• Chico Hamilton – drums
• George Bohanon – trombone; percussion (3)
• Charles Lloyd – tenor saxophone (1,2,4,6), flute (3,5)
• Gábor Szabó – guitar
• Albert Stinson – bass

References

1. "Jazz Special Merit Album". Billboard. Vol. 75, no. 7. February 16, 1963. p. 30. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
2. Impulse! Records discography, accessed March 18, 2011.
3. Down Beat, May 9, 1963, Vol. 30, No. 11.
4. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed March 18, 2011.
5. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 92. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.