I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play.

" The group recorded for Columbia Reprise and Impulse Records and also recorded the soundtrack for the industrial film Litho in 1962 the first American film to be shown behind the Iron Curtain. He formed a new group with Larry Coryell Richard Davis and Arnie Lawrence in 1966 and recorded The Dealer for Impulse Records. And in 2007 Hamilton received a Living Legend Jazz Award as part of The Kennedy Center Jazz in Our Time Festival as well as receiving a Doctor of Fine Arts from The New School.