Drummer Chico Hamilton, West Coast Jazz Pioneer, Dies Enlarge this image toggle caption Todd Boebel/Courtesy of the artist Todd Boebel/Courtesy of the artist Jazz drummer Chico Hamilton, a linchpin of the West Coast jazz scene in the 1950s and '60s, died yesterday evening of natural causes in New York City, according to his publicist April Thibeault. The first incarnation of …
