At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

" 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.