Doug Hamilton on forming a trombone band.

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Doug Hamilton on moving to Toronto.

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Doug Hamilton discusses songwriting.

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Q: “Do you try to keep all the writing in the band or do you have arrangements from outside or how does it happen?”

A: Doug Hamilton: “We have a few arrangements from outside, Ted, but I think that whenever possible now, the writers in the band are so good that I would prefer to keep it within the band because they know the personnel and they know the capabilities. And a lot of the charts, of course, are really difficult, that Shade of Jade that we were just listening to was a marvelous arrangement, but you're listening to a high G-flat that Ian has to play and, of course, it comes out just as if it were just sheer silver. And it's that kind of lead trombone playing that is very demanding. And I think that if there is anything that we perhaps need a little bit right now or just some charts that we can relax with because ...”

Interviewer: “Yeah, we're ...”

Doug Hamilton: “They really were quite ... all of them are quite demanding, even the ballad Lee, it demands an awful lot of the performer.”