Milt Hinton

Milt Hinton

Courtesy the Fraser MacPherson estate
Background information
Birth name Milton John Hilton
Born (1910-06-23)June 23, 1910
Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S.
Died December 19, 2000(2000-12-19) (aged 90)
Queens, New York, U.S.
Genres Traditional jazz, swing, pop
Occupation(s) Musician, photographer, educator
Instruments Double bass
Years active 80 years
Associated acts Jabbo Smith, Zutty Singleton, Art Tatum, Eddie South, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Benny Goodman, Clark Terry, Hank Jones, Branford Marsalis
Website http://www.milthinton.com/

Milton John "Milt" Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000), regarded as the Dean of jazz bass players, was an American double bassist and photographer.[1] His nicknames included "Sporty" from his years in Chicago, "Fump" from his time on the road with Cab Calloway, and "The Judge" from the 1950s and beyond.[2]

Biography

Early Life in Mississippi (1910-1919)

Hinton was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi; the only child of Hilda Gertrude Robinson, whom he referred to as "Titter," and Milton Dixon Hinton. His father left the family when Milt was around three months old, so Milt grew up in a home with his mother, his maternal grandmother (whom he referred to as "Mama"), and two of his mother’s sisters.

His childhood in Vicksburg was characterized by extreme poverty and extreme racism. Lynching was still in common practice at the time, and Hinton refers to an experience when he was a child of unintentionally coming upon a lynching as "one of the clearest memories of my childhood."[2]

Growing Up in Chicago (1919-1935)

Hinton moved with his extended family to Chicago, Illinois in the fall of 1919, which opened up a new horizon of opportunity for him. Chicago was where Hinton first encountered economic diversity among African-Americans, about which he later noted, "That’s when I realized that being black didn’t always mean you had to be poor."[2] It was also where he experienced an abundance of music, either in person or through live performances broadcast on the radio. During this time he first heard concerts featuring Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Eddie South, and many others.

Music was also a fixture at home for Hinton, where Milt’s mother and other relatives regularly played on an upright piano. Milt received his first instrument – a violin – in 1923 for his thirteenth birthday. While attending Wendell Phillips High School, he played violin in the school orchestra and learned peck horn in order to play in the school’s ROTC marching band that was directed by Major N. Clark Smith. He soon transitioned from peck horn to bass saxophone and then to tuba, while also being accepted into the city-wide brass band sponsored by the Chicago Defender, where he played alongside Lionel Hampton.

After graduating from high school, Hinton attended Crane Junior College for two years, during which time he began receiving regular work as a freelance musician around Chicago. He performed with such respected musicians as Freddie Keppard, Zutty Singleton, Jabbo Smith, Erskine Tate, and Art Tatum. His first steady job began in the spring of 1930, playing tuba (and later double bass) in the band of pianist Tiny Parham. Milt’s recording debut on November 4, 1930 occurred on tuba in the context of Parham’s band on a tune titled "Squeeze Me." After graduating from Crane Junior College in 1932, Milt enrolled in Northwestern University for one semester, after which he chose to drop out of college in order to pursue music full-time.[2] He received steady work from 1932 through 1935 in a quartet with violinist Eddie South, including extended residencies in California, Chicago, and Detroit. It was with this group that Milt first recorded on double bass in the spring of 1933.

The Cab Calloway Era (1936-1950)

Paystub from Cab Calloway to Milt Hinton (1947), from the Milton J. and Mona C. Hinton Collection, Oberlin Conservatory Library special collections

In 1936, Milt joined the Cab Calloway Orchestra, initially as a temporary replacement for Al Morgan while the band was on tour en route to a six-month residency at the newly opened midtown location of the Cotton Club in New York City. Milt quickly found acceptance among the band members, and he ended up staying with Calloway for over fifteen years. Until the Cotton Club closed in 1940, the Calloway band would perform there for up to six months per year, going on various tours for the remaining six months of the year.[3] During the Cotton Club residencies, Hinton also took part in a number of recording sessions with Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Ethel Waters, Teddy Wilson, and many others. It was at this time that Milt recorded what is possibly the first bass feature, "Pluckin’ the Bass" in August 1939.

Milt also first appeared regularly on radio while in Calloway’s band, either on bass in the context of concerts broadcast from the Cotton Club, or as a cast member for the short-lived music quiz show "Cab Calloway’s Quizzicale." These broadcasts brought national attention to the Calloway band and helped enable the successful national tours the band would schedule. They also gave listeners a chance to hear examples of jive talk, which Calloway would formalize through publications such as his Hepster’s Dictionary, first published in 1938.[3]

Calloway’s band included renowned sidemen such as Danny Barker, Chu Berry, Doc Cheatham, Cozy Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Illinois Jacquet, Jonah Jones, Ike Quebec, and Ben Webster. Hinton credits Chu Berry with elevating the overall musicianship of the Calloway band in part by encouraging Cab to hire arrangers such as Benny Carter to create new arrangements that would challenge the musicians. As Hinton put it, "Musically he was the greatest thing that ever happened to the band."[2] Hinton was also heavily influenced by the musical innovations of Dizzy Gillespie, with whom he had informal sessions in the late 1930s during breaks between sets at the Cotton Club. Hinton credits Gillespie with introducing him to many of the experimental harmonic practices and chord substitutions that would later be associated with bebop.

Mona and Charlotte Hinton (1947), courtesy of the Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection

In 1939 when Milt returned to Chicago for his Grandmother’s funeral, he met Mona Clayton, who was then singing in his mother’s church choir. The two were married a few years later and remained inseparable for the rest of Milt’s life. (Mona was Milt’s second wife; the first was a brief relationship in the 1930s with Oby Allen, a friend Milt knew from high school.) Milt and Mona’s only child, Charlotte, was born on February 28, 1947. Mona had begun traveling with the Calloway Orchestra in the early 1940s - the only musician’s friend or spouse to do so. She helped musicians in the band manage their money, and she often insisted that they open savings accounts. She was a trusted confidant who was known for her discretion.

When traveling with a toddler became too difficult, the Hintons bought a two-family house in the Queens section of New York City, and ten years later they purchased a larger single-family home in an adjacent Queens neighborhood where they remained for the rest of their lives.

Mona played a critical role in Milt’s life and career. In addition to caring for their daughter, she handled all of the family’s finances, and her attention to detail ensured the couple’s financial security later in life. She kept track of Milt’s freelance work, scheduled interviews, coordinated public relations events, and often drove him back and forth to gigs (Milt never drove as an adult, due in part to a major car accident he was involved in as a teenager in Chicago). In the mid 1960s Mona completed both a bachelors and a masters degree and taught in the public schools for several years. In the 1970s, she began traveling with Milt again and was regularly invited to join him at the jazz parties and festivals where he performed. At the same time, she was active as a music contractor for Lena Horne and others. Mona was always well respected in the jazz community, and she and Milt were viewed by many as role models; as the jazz historian Dan Morgenstern noted in an article from 2000, “If there is a closer couple, I’d be surprised.”[4]

After Cab (1950-1954)

By 1950, popular musical tastes had changed such that Calloway was no longer financially able to support a full big band. Instead, he hired Milt and a few others to create a smaller ensemble – first a septet and later a quartet – which toured with some regularity until June 1952, including trips to Cuba and Uruguay. After the Calloway ensemble disbanded, Milt began devoting more time to work as a freelance studio musician in New York City. At first, the work was sporadic, and, as Milt put it, "This was the one period in my life when I was worried about earning a living."[2] He supplemented by playing as many clubs and restaurants as possible, a practice he would continue for the next several decades. He performed regularly at La Vie en Rose, the Embers, the Metropole, and Basin Street West, where he appeared with Jackie Gleason, Phil Moore, and Joe Bushkin, among others. In the early 1950s he also performed for a brief time around the New York area with Count Basie.

Although his freelance work was steadily increasing, in July 1953 Hinton signed a one-year contract to go on tour with Louis Armstrong. He described the decision as "very difficult"[2] as it would force him to be away from his family, and it would also slow down the momentum he was gaining as a freelance musician in New York City. The steady pay, along with the opportunity to perform with Armstrong won out, and Hinton performed dozens of concerts, including a tour of Japan, as a member of the band. When an opportunity to join the house band for a television show hosted by Robert Q. Lewis in New York opened up in February 1954, Hinton gave his notice to Armstrong and returned home to Queens.

Milt Hinton's personal datebook (1959), from the Milton J. and Mona C. Hinton Collection, Oberlin Conservatory Library special collections

In the Studios (1954-1970)

For roughly the next two decades he performed regularly on numerous radio and television programs, including those hosted by Jackie Gleason, Robert Q. Lewis, Galen Drake, Patti Page, Polly Bergen, Teddy Wilson, Mitch Miller, Dick Cavett, and others. As he recalled, "I had a great situation because I was never on staff. That meant I’d get paid by the show. And since I never spent more than fifteen hours a week on rehearsals and shows, I always had free time to do record dates."[2]

By far, his is most regular work during this era was in the recording studio, where Milt was among the first African-Americans to be regularly hired for studio contract work. From the mid-1950s through the early 1970s he contributed to thousands of jazz and popular records as well as hundreds of jingles and film soundtracks. He would regularly play on three three-hour studio sessions per day, requiring him to own multiple basses that he hired assistants to transport from one studio to the next. During this era Milt recorded with everyone from Billie Holiday to Paul McCartney, Frank Sinatra to Leon Redbone, and Sam Cooke to Barbra Streisand. As Hinton summarized his time in the studios, "I might be on a date for Andre Kostelanetz in the morning, do one with Brook Benton or Johnny Mathis in the afternoon, and then finish up the day with Paul Anka or Bobby Rydell. At one time or another, I probably played for just about every popular artist around in those days."[2]

Starting in the mid-1950s, he regularly worked in the studio with Hank Jones (p), Barry Galbraith (g), and Osie Johnson (d) in a group that informally became known as the New York Rhythm Section. The four played on hundreds of sessions together and even recorded an LP in 1956 that was titled "The Rhythm Section."

After the Studios (1970-2000)

By the late 1960s studio work began dropping off, so Hinton incorporated more live performances into his schedule. He regularly accepted club gigs, most often at Michael’s Pub, Zinno’s, and the Rainbow Room where he performed with Benny Goodman, Johnny Hartman, Dick Hyman, Red Norvo, Teddy Wilson, and others. He also went back on the road, first with Diahann Carroll for a tour in Paris in 1966, and later with Paul Anka, Barbra Streisand, Pearl Bailey, and Bing Crosby. From the 1960s through the 1990s he traveled extensively to Europe, Canada, South America, Japan, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East, while also appearing throughout the U.S.

Ad for 1970 performance of the New York Bass Violin Choir, from the Milton J. and Mona C. Hinton Collection, Oberlin Conservatory Library special collections

In 1968 Hinton began performing as a part of Professionals Unlimited (later renamed the New York Bass Violin Choir), a collective bass ensemble organized by Bill Lee that included Lisle Atkinson, Ron Carter, Richard Davis, Michael Fleming, Percy Heath, and Sam Jones. The group performed irregularly for a number of years and in 1980 released a self-titled album on the Strata-East label (SES-8003) containing material recorded between 1969-1975.

Milt also taught for nearly twenty years as a visiting professor of jazz studies at Hunter College and Baruch College, first offering a jazz workshop at Hunter in the fall of 1973. During this time he regularly appeared at jazz festivals, parties, and cruises; performing annually at Dick Gibson’s jazz parties in Colorado, the Odessa and Midland jazz parties in Texas beginning in 1967, and Don and Sue Miller’s jazz parties in Phoenix and Scottsdale.

Milt played at the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 and was a regular at Newport and other jazz festivals produced by George Wein throughout the next four decades. He was a favorite at the Bern Jazz Festival in Switzerland, sponsored by Hans Zurbruegg and Marianne Gauer. For much of the 1980s and 1990s Hinton was featured on jazz cruises organized by Hank O’Neal, then owner of Chiaroscuro Records.

Honorary Doctorate awarded to Milt Hinton by William Patterson College (1987), from the Milton J. and Mona C. Hinton Collection, Oberlin Conservatory Library special collections

By the 1990s Milt was revered as an elder statesman in jazz, and he was regularly honored with significant awards and accolades. He received honorary doctorates from William Paterson College, Skidmore College, Hamilton College, DePaul University, Trinity College, the Berklee College of Music, Fairfield University, and Baruch College of the City University of New York. He won the Eubie Award from the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Living Treasure Award from the Smithsonian Institution, and he was the first recipient of the Three Keys Award in Bern, Switzerland. In 1993, Milt was awarded the highly prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Fellowship. He also contributed to the NEA’s Jazz Oral History Program, continuing a longstanding practice of recording interviews with friends in his basement during extended visits. In 1996 he received a New York State Governor’s Arts Award, in March 1998 he was awarded the Artist Achievement Award by the Governor of Mississippi, and in 2000 his name was installed on ASCAP’s Wall of Fame.

In 1990, Milt's 80th year, WRTI-FM in Philadelphia produced a series of twenty-eight short programs in which Milt chronicled his life. These were aired nationwide by more than one hundred fifty public radio stations and received a Gabriel Award that year as Best National Short Feature. In the same year George Wein produced a concert as a part of the JVC Jazz Festival in honor of Milt’s 80th birthday. Similar concerts were produced for his 85th and 90th birthdays. By 1996, Milt ceased performing on bass, due to a number of physical ailments, and he passed away at the age of 90 on December 19, 2000.

Musicianship

Milt was broadly regarded as a consummate sideman, possessing a sensitivity for appropriately applying his formidable technique along with his extensive harmonic knowledge to the performance at hand. He was equally adept at bowing, pizzicato, and "slapping," a technique for which he first became famous while playing with the Cab Calloway Orchestra early in his career. He was also an accomplished sight-reader, a skill which he developed on the road with Calloway and honed during his several decades of studio work. As he described his technical diversity, "Working with Cab for sixteen years could have made me stale. You play the same music over and over, and after awhile you can do it in your sleep. Many guys liked it that way because it was easy. But when the band business got bad, they weren’t prepared to do anything else. On the other hand, I was able to work on radio and TV and get all kinds of record dates. In a real way, practicing and discipline paid off."[2]

Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection

Milt Hinton working with David Berger to identify Hinton's photographs, courtesy of the Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection

Milt received his first camera, a 35mm Argus C3, on his 25th birthday in 1935. He later moved on to a Leica, then a Canon 35mm range-finder, and by the 1960s to a Nikon F. Between 1935 and 1999 Hinton took thousands of photographs, approximately 60,000 of which now comprise the Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection, co-directed by David G. Berger and Holly Maxson.[5] The Collection includes 35mm black and white negatives and color transparencies, reference and exhibition-quality prints, and photographs given to and collected by Milt throughout his life. The work depicts an extensive range of jazz artists and popular performers in varied settings - on the road, in recording studios, at parties, and at home - over a period of six decades.

Beginning in the early 1960s, Hinton and Berger worked together to organize the photographs and identify the subjects of the photos. In June 1981, Hinton had his first one-person photographic exhibition in Philadelphia, and since then items from the Collection have been featured in dozens of exhibits across the country and in Europe.

Photographs from the Collection have also regularly appeared in periodicals, calendars, postcards, CD liner notes, films, and books, including the several books co-written by Hinton and Berger: Bass Line: The Stories and Photographs of Milt Hinton (Temple University Press, 1988), OverTime: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton (Pomegranate Art Books, 1991), and Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton’s Life in Stories and Photographs (Vanderbilt University Press, 2008). Notable documentary films that have drawn upon the Collection include The Long Night of Lady Day (Billie Holiday), The Brute and the Beautiful (Ben Webster), and Listen Up (Quincy Jones). A Great Day in Harlem, a 1994 documentary about Esquire’s photographic shoot of jazz legends in 1958, features numerous photographs by Milt as well as a home movie shot by Mona. In late 2002 Berger and Maxson utilized the Collection along with a number of original interviews with Hinton’s friends and colleagues to produce the documentary film Keeping Time: The Life, Music & Photographs of Milt Hinton. It debuted at the London Film Festival, won the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2003, and has been shown at film festivals both domestically and abroad.

Milton J. and Mona C. Hinton Collection at the Oberlin College Conservatory Library

In 1980, in honor of Milt’s 70th birthday, his friends and associates worked to create the Milton J. Hinton Scholarship Fund, which was used to help support the musical studies of a variety of bass students over the next 35 years. In 2014 the fund was transferred to Oberlin College to provide scholarships to students attending the biennial Milton J. Hinton Summer Institute for Studio Bass, established at Oberlin College in 2014 and directed by Peter Dominguez, Professor of Jazz Studies and Double Bass at Oberlin.[6][7] The institute is one component of a broader relationship between the Hinton Estate and Oberlin, which also includes:

This relationship is in line with Hinton’s longstanding goal to educate and inspire future generations of musicians. As Milt noted when discussing one of his own bass teachers, "For [Dmitri Shmuklovsky], passing on his skill and knowledge to the next generation was a solemn duty. It was a mission that went beyond his music. And looking back, I know his greatest gift was to teach me this strong sense of responsibility. It’s the reason I’ve always tried to help young people. If someone wants to improve, if they have a sincere desire to learn, I’ve always tried to be there to give them whatever I can."[2] Through this multifaceted relationship between Hinton and Oberlin College, his devotion and generosity to future generations will be carried on.

Discography

As leader

78s include:

LPs include:

CDs include:

As sideman

With Louis Bellson and Gene Krupa

With Bob Brookmeyer

With John Benson Brooks

With Ruth Brown

With Kenny Burrell

With Jimmy Cleveland

With Al Cohn

With Freddy Cole

With Paul Desmond

With Curtis Fuller

With Dizzy Gillespie

With Freddie Green

With Gigi Gryce

With Lionel Hampton

With Johnny Hodges

With Langston Hughes

With Milt Jackson

With Willis Jackson

With Elvin Jones

With Hank Jones

With Quincy Jones

With Mundell Lowe

With Johnny Lytle

With Herbie Mann

With Helen Merrill

With Charles Mingus

With Joe Newman

With Ike Quebec

With Zoot Sims

With Sonny Stitt

With Ralph Sutton and Ruby Braff

With Sylvia Syms

With Clark Terry

With Ben Webster

With Branford Marsalis

Select Photographic Exhibitions

Date Location Exhibition Title
Jan. 30 - April 25, 2015 Marshall Fine Arts Center, Haverford College, Haverford, PA An Exhibition of African American Photographers from the Daguerrian to the Digital Eras
June 2014 – present Conservatory Lounge, Oberlin College Conservatory, Oberlin, OH The Way I See It: The Photographs of Milt Hinton
Aug. - Dec. 2014 Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH An Insider's Lens: The Jazz Photography of Milt Hinton
April 4 - Sept. 7, 2014 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Jazz Lives: The Photographs of Lee Friedlander and Milt Hinton
Jan. 24 - March 4, 2013 St. Peter's Church, New York, NY Milt Hinton: Inside Jazz (PrezFest 2013 Legend Wall)
Nov. 11 - Dec. 12, 2011 Baruch College, New York, NY Milt Hinton's Jazz Photographs: Classics and Works in Color
Nov. 4 - Dec. 8, 2010 Holyoke Center - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Witnessing Jazz: Photographs by Milt Hinton
Dec. 4, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010 Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT The Judge: Jazz Photographs by Milt Hinton
Nov. 7, 2008 - Jan. 11, 2009 Chattanooga African American Museum, Chattanooga, TN Playing the Changes: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton
May 29 - June 19, 2008 Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs
Feb. 8 - March 5, 2008 Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College of the City University of New York Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs
April 2007 Jacksonville Jazz Festival, Jacksonville, FL A Jazz Odyssey: a Retrospective of Photographs by Milt Hinton
Nov. 10, 2006 - Jan. 29, 2007 STAX Museum of American Soul Music, Memphis, TN Milt Hinton: All That Jazz - A Behind the Scenes View of Jazz in the 20th Century
July 10 - Sept. 6, 2006 National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH Keeping Time: Milt Hinton's Jazz Photographs
April 2005 Bern Jazz Festival, Bern, Switzerland
Feb. 2005 Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA Through the Viewfinder: Milt Hinton's World of Jazz
Jan. 27 - April 10, 2005 Hamilton College, Clinton, NY The Music Stand: Jazz as a Unifying Social Force
Oct. - Nov. 2004 Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria
Sept. 2004 Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ From the Out House to the White House: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton
May 15 - June 11, 2004 WBGO Gallery, Newark, NJ The Photographs of Milt Hinton
May 2003 Banning Gallery (Tribeca Film Festival), Banning, CA Keeping Time: The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton
Dec. 2001 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY Milt Hinton: Photographs of Jazz Artists
May - Sept. 2001 Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, CA Bebop & Hi-Fi: Photographing Jazz
July 2001 The North Seas Jazz Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
Nov. 5 - Dec. 11, 2001 Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College of the City University of New York Milt Hinton: A Memorial Exhibition of his Jazz Photographs 1938-1986
Sept. - Nov. 1998 Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY Milton Hinton: A Tribute (curated by Marc Miller)
Feb. 6 - March 4, 1997 Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College of the City University of New York Jazz Odyssey: A Retrospective of Photographs by Milt Hinton
June - July 1997 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Keeping Time: Photographs of Musicians by John Cohen and Milt Hinton
April - July 1997 The Smithsonian Institution, Anacostia Center, Washington, D.C. Life on the Road: The Photographs of Milton J. Hinton
Feb. 1 - April 7, 1997 New York State Museum, Albany, NY Jazz Shots: The Photographs of Milt Hinton
May - June 1996 Providence-St. Mel School, Chicago, IL
Jan. 13 - March 31, 1996 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA Firsthand in the Jazz World: Photographs of American Musicians by Milton Hinton
Sept. 13 - Oct. 20, 1996 Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton
July 1996 Musikhauset Aarhus, Copenhagen Photographs by Milt Hinton
March 1996 Walt Whitman Arts & Cultural Center, Camden, NJ The Jazz Photographs of Milt Hinton
Feb. 1996 Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ The Photographs of Milt Hinton
Feb. 1996 Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection
May 13 - July 2, 1995 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Milt Hinton - Jazz Photographs
March -April 1995 Michigan State University, Lansing, MI Photographs by Milt Hinton
Sept. 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA
Jan. - Feb. 1994 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Jazz Photographs by Milt Hinton
Sept.- Oct. 1993 Beach Institute African American Cultural Center, Savannah, GA An Insider's Perspective
Feb. - March 1993 The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA The Photographs of Milt Hinton
Feb. 12 - March 9, 1992 Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College of the City University of New York, NY Jazz Odyssey: Photographs by Milt Hinton 1930-1980
July 6 - Oct. 13, 1991 Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO Bass Line: The Photographs of Milt Hinton
Sept. 27 - Nov. 8, 1991 Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Portraits in Jazz: Photographs by Milt Hinton
Jan. - Feb. 1991 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Milt Hinton: Photographs
1991-1999 Le FNAC, Paris, France Milt Hinton, Legende du Jazz (traveling exhibition at store galleries in France, Belgium, and Germany)
March 21 - April 4, 1991 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Jan. 8 - July 12, 1991 Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit, MI The Life and Photographs of Milt Hinton, Jazz Musician
Sept. 11 - Oct. 21, 1990 The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH A View from the Bass Line: Jazz Photographs By Milt Hinton
Jan. - March 1990 Aetna Life and Casualty Company, Hartford, CT The Life and Photographs of Milt Hinton, Jazz Musician
April 15 - May 28, 1988 Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL Milt Hinton: Five Decades of Jazz Photographs
March 4 - April 4, 1988 Newark City Hall, Newark, NJ Milt Hinton's Jazz Legends
Jan. 31 - March 25, 1988 CRT's Craftery Gallery, Hartford, CT All That Jazz
July 1986 Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland On the Road
July 1986 The 92nd Street YMHA, New York, NY On the Road (also exhibits in July 1989, July 1998, and July 2001)
June - July 1986 Mellon Bank Center, Philadelphia, PA A Jazz Master Documents Fifty Years of American Music (also exhibited at the Mellon Bank Center Pittsburgh, PA, June 1987)
Dec. 17, 1985 - Jan. 14, 1986 Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY On the Road: 50 Years of Jazz Photographs By Milt Hinton
March - April 1985 Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College,Wilkes-Barre, PA
Jan. 29 - Feb. 24, 1985 Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN Images of Jazz
June 1981 Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Milt Hinton's Photographs (Hinton's first one-person show)

References

  1. ↑ Keepnews, Peter (December 21, 2000). "Milt Hinton, Dean of Jazz Bassists, Is Dead at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-10-08.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Hinton, Milt; Berger, David; Maxson, Holly (2008). Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.
  3. 1 2 Shipton, Alyn (2010). Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway. New York: Oxford University Press.
  4. ↑ Morgenstern, Dan (April 2000). "Milt Hinton: The Judge". JazzTimes. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Milt Hinton". MiltHinton.com. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Oberlin Honors a Jazz Legend Through Unprecedented Relationship". Oberlin College News Center. April 22, 2014. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  7. ↑ Telin, Mike (June 6, 2014). "Oberlin celebrates the "Dean of Jazz Bassists" with a daylong celebration on June 12". clevelandclassical.com. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  8. ↑ "An Insider's Lens: The Jazz Photography of Milt Hinton". Allen Memorial Art Museum. 2014. Retrieved May 3, 2016.

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