HAMILTON, FORESTSTORN (CHICO
). Jazz drummer ( in Los Angeles, California). He began his professional career as a clarinetist, performing in the early 1940s with such groups as
Ernie Royale
,
Charles Mingus
, Illinois Jacquet,
Lionel Hampton
, and
Lester Young
, among others. During his years of service in the United States Armed Forces (1942-46), he studied drums with
Jonathan (Jo
) Jones
. After his discharge he played with various groups,...