Eddie Chamblee

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Eddie Chamblee (born February 24, 1920 in Atlanta as Edwin Leon Chamblee ; † May 1, 1999 in New York ) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues musician ( tenor saxophone , clarinet ).

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Eddie Chamblee's father played the trumpet, his mother the piano; when he was twelve he started playing the saxophone. He grew up in Chicago , where he attended Wendell Phillips High School. During his year of law studies at the University of Chicago , he worked as a musician; also during his military service from 1941 to 1946 he belonged to an army band. After his discharge from the army, he led his own combo with Osie Johnson from 1946 . He then worked from 1947 to 1954 in Chicago with his own formations; so he recorded the tracks "Walkin 'Home" / "Lonesome Road" on United Records with his The Rockin' and Walkin 'Rhythm of Eddie Chamblee . In 1948 he played in the rhythm and blues band of the pianist Sonny Thompson , on whose hits in the R&B charts "Long Gone (Parts I and II)" and "Late Freight" he participated. In 1952 he played in the backing band of the R&B vocal group The Four Blazes , with whom he had a # 1 success in the R&B charts in 1952 with “Mary Jo”. In 1955 he worked on recordings of Amos Milburn for Aladdin Records with ("House Party"); In 1959 he recorded for Chess Records with Lowell Fulson ("Comin 'Home Someday").

He then played with Lionel Hampton until 1957 . In 1957/58 he was married to the singer Dinah Washington , on whose recordings he participated until 1963. In their version of the classic "Is not Nobody's Business" they built the line of text If me and Eddie fuss and fight ... a. Through the connection with Mercury Records , with which Washington was under contract, two LPs were created for the label in 1957/58.

1959/60 he played with Cozy Cole ; In 1964 an album was released on the Prestige Records label , The Rocking Tenor Sax of Eddie Chamblee, which he recorded with organist Dayton Selby and drummer Al Griffin. After it had become quiet from the end of the 1960s, he worked with Milt Buckner and Arnett Cobb in 1976 , again with Lionel Hampton in 1977/78 , with whom he also went on a European tour, and in 1982 briefly with the Count Basie Orchestra . From 1982 to 1992 he performed with his own ensemble on Saturdays at the New York Club Sweet Basil and also worked with the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band until illnesses forced him to retire.

Discographic notes

  • Chamblee Music (Mercury, 1957)
  • Doodin ' (Mercury, 1958)
  • The Rocking Tenor Sax of Eddie Chamblee (Prestige, 1964)
  • Blowing in Paris (Black & Blue)

The LP Rockin 'And Walkin' Rhythm Of Eddie Chamblee 1948-57 was also released on Mercury Records ; it contains u. a. four titles that Chamblee recorded with his sextet and Dinah Washington. Eddie Chamblee's recordings under his own name, which were made in Chicago in the early 1950s with Osie Johnson between 1953 and 1954, appeared as a CD reissue in the anthology Eddie Chamblee / Julian Dash / Joe Thomas- The Complete Recordings 1951-1956 on Blue Moon Records .

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SURNAME Chamblee, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chamblee, Edwin Leon (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz and R&B musician
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1999
Place of death New York City