Joe Chambers

Joseph Arthur Chambers (born June 25, 1942 in Stoneacre , Virginia ) is an American jazz drummer. He was part of a group of jazz musicians who recorded a variety of groundbreaking jazz albums in the 1960s, most notably with Blue Note Records .

life and work

Joe Chambers attended Chester High School in Chester, later the Philadelphia Conservatory for a year, and then the American University in Washington, DC . Chambers then performed in the area and Washington, DC, before moving to New York City in 1963 .

There he first worked with musicians such as Eric Dolphy and Freddie Hubbard , with whom he recorded the album Breaking Point in 1964. He played drums with Jimmy Giuffre and Andrew Hill , and from the mid-1960s also with Bobby Hutcherson , Joe Henderson and Sam Rivers . With Wayne Shorter he recorded the album Adam's Apple in 1966.

In 1970 he became a member of Max Roach's percussion ensemble M'Boom ; he also appeared with jazz legends such as Sonny Rollins , Tommy Flanagan , Charles Mingus and Art Farmer . With Tommy Flanagan and Reggie Workman he founded the Super Jazz Trio. In the late 1970s he became co-leader of Larry Young's band and played in Karl Ratzer's band with Jeremy Steig and Eddie Gomez . In the 1980s he made recordings under Chet Baker and Ray Mantilla .

Joe Chambers is also active as a teacher, for example at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City , where he leads the Outlaw Band . In 2008 he took over the Thomas S. Kenan Chair as Distinguished Professor of Jazz in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington .

Discographic notes

As a leader

• 1971: The Almoravid
• 1973: Almoravid, Muse
• 1976: New World, Finite
• 1977: Double Exposure, Muse
• 1981: New York Concerto
• 1991: Phantom of the City
• 1998: Mirrors, Blue Note
• 2006: The Outlaw
• 2010: Horace to Max

With M'Boom

• Re: Percussion, Strata-East, 1973
• M'Boom, Columbia, 1979
• Collage, Soul Note, 1984

As a sideman

With Donald Byrd

• Mustang !, Blue Note , 1964
• Fancy Free, Blue Note, 1969

With Chick Corea

• Tones for Joan's Bones, Atlantic , 1966

With Miles Davis

• The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions, Columbia, 1969

With Art Farmer

• Something Tasty, Baystate, 1979

With Don Friedman

• Metamorphosis, Prestige Records, 1966

With Jimmy Giuffre

• New York Concerts: The Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4 , 1965, ed. 2014

With Joe Henderson

• Mode for Joe, Blue Note, 1966
• Joe Henderson Big Band, Polygram Records, 1992

With Andrew Hill

• Andrew !!!, Blue Note Records, 1964
• One For One, Blue Note Records, 1965
• Compulsion !!!!!, Blue Note Records, 1965

With Freddie Hubbard

• Breaking Point , Blue Note Records, 1964

With Bobby Hutcherson

• Dialogue , Blue Note Records, 1965
• Components, Blue Note Records, 1965
• Happenings, Blue Note Records, 1966
• Spiral, Blue Note Records, 1965-1968
• Oblique, Blue Note Records, 1967
• Patterns, Blue Note Records, 1968
• Total Eclipse, Blue Note Records, 1968
• Medina, Blue Note Records, 1969
• Now !, Blue Note Records, 1969

With Hubert Laws

• Wild Flower, Atlantic, 1972

With Charles Mingus

• Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert , Columbia, 1972
• Something Like A Bird, Atlantic Records, 1978
• Me, Myself and Eye, Atlantic Records, 1978

With Sam Rivers

• Contours, Blue Note Records, 1965

With Woody Shaw

• Cassandranite, Muse, 1965

With Archie Shepp

• Fire Music, Impulse !, 1965
• On This Night, Impulse !, 1965
• New Thing at Newport , Impulse !, 1965 (also with recordings by John Coltrane )
• For Losers, Impulse !, 1969
• Kwanza, Impulse !, 1969
• On Green Dolphin Street, Denon, 1977

With Wayne Shorter

• Et Cetera, Blue Note, 1965
• The All Seeing Eye, Blue Note, 1965
• Adam's Apple , Blue Note, 1966
• Schizophrenia, Blue Note, 1967

With The Super Jazz Trio

• The Super Jazz Trio, Baystate Records, 1978
• The Standard, Baystate Records, 1980

With Hidefumi Toki

• City, Baystate Records, 1978

With Charles Tolliver

• Paper Man, Black Lion Records , 1969

With McCoy Tyner

• Tender Moments, Blue Note, 1967

With Miroslav Vitouš

• Infinite Search , Embryo / Atlantic, 1969

With Tyrone Washington

• Natural Essence, Blue Note, 1967

With Joe Zawinul

• Zawinul , Atlantic, 1970

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jazz News: Joe Chambers and the Outlaw Band at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Works by and about Joe Chambers in the catalog of the German National Library