Half a resurrection? Hamilton and Bates of the Blue Flames at Chan's Friday
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Back when they were kids, sax and harp player Scott Hamilton and guitarist Fred Bates started a blues band called Hamilton-Bates Blue Flames, with Preston Hubbard on bass and Chuck Riggs on drums. Scott went on to become a world-famous tenor sax player, living in London and touring in Europe, where jazz thrives. Friday night he'll be at Chan's in Woonsocket, reuniting with his high-school friend Fred (and backed by Marshall Wood, Jim Gwinn and Paul Schmeling) for two shows: 8 p.m. $20, 10 p.m. $15, both $24. You can see some photos of the Blue Flames in this autobiographical section at Preston Hubbard's site. (They've all played with Duke Robillard -- Preston went from Roomful of Blues to The Fabulous Thunderbirds.) YouTube has a 1977 TV clip of Scott at 22 fronting a Toronto band, and you might want to watch it before you check out what's below, shot nearly 30 years later.
The Scott Hamilton Quintet perform Fats Waller's The Jitterbug Waltz. 
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