Joe Chambers

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Name = Joe Chambers

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Instrument = drums
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Genre = Jazz
Occupation = Drummer
Pianist
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Eric Dolphy
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Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist and composer most notable for his work with Wayne Shorter on the album "Adam's Apple". He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. [ [http://members.tripod.com/vermontreview/Interviews/chambers.htm Joe Chambers Interview ] ] In the 1960s Chambers gigged with several high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Lou Donaldson, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre and Bobby Hutcherson. Other artists Joe Chambers has worked with in his career include Archie Shepp, David Murray, Joe Henderson and Max Roach. He has been a member of several incarnations of Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble. [ [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gifyxqt5ldje~T1 allmusic ((( Joe Chambers > Biography ))) ] ]

He has also taught, including at the New School for Social Research's Mannes College of Music in New York, NY. At the school he leads the "Outlaw Band," [ [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=8502 Jazz News: Joe Chambers and the Outlaw Band at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music February 28, 8:00 pm ] ] [ [http://www.newschool.edu/jazz/events/JazzPresents06.pdf untitled ] ] [ [http://www.jazz.newschool.edu/Faculty/bios.html Faculty Biographies - The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music ] ] [ [http://www.jazz.newschool.edu/jazz/facbio.htm Mannes Jazz Faculty Biographies ] ] In 2008, he was hired to be the Thomas S. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Jazz in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, in Wilmington, North Carolina. [ [http://appserv02.uncw.edu/news/artview.aspx?id=2358 Welcome to University of North Carolina Wilmington News ] ]

Albums with Joe Chambers as a leader

*Joe Chambers, "New World," Porter Records, 2008 (reissue of 1976)
*Joe Chambers, "Almoravid," Muse, 1973
*Joe Chambers, "New World," Finite, 1976

Albums by others, on which his compositions appear

*Freddie Hubbard, "Breaking Point," Blue Note Records, 1964
*Bobby Hutcherson, "Dialogue," Blue Note Records, 1965
*Bobby Hutcherson, "Components," Blue Note Records, 1965
*Woody Shaw, "Cassandranite," Muse, 1965
*Bobby Hutcherson, "Spiral," Blue Note Records, 1965-1968
*Bobby Hutcherson, "Oblique," Blue Note Records, 1967
*Bobby Hutcherson, "Patterns," Blue Note Records, 1968
*Bobby Hutcherson, "Medina," Blue Note Records, 1969
*Bobby Hutcherson, "Now!," Blue Note Records, 1969
*M'Boom, "Collage," Soul Note, 1984

References

External links

* [http://members.tripod.com/vermontreview/Interviews/chambers.htm Interview with Brian L. Knight]