Ches Smith

Ches Smith at his home in Brooklyn, NY.

Ches Smith is an American musician whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone. He writes and performs music in a wide variety of contexts, including solo percussion, experimental rock bands, and small and large jazz ensembles.

Smith has performed with Good For Cows, Marc Ribot, Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Xiu Xiu, Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant, Carla Bozulich, Beat Circus, Sean Hayes, Ben Goldberg, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Ara Anderson and Fred Frith.

He has also recorded and performed a full-length album of his own solo percussion pieces entitled Congs For Brums (2006). In 2010 he released Congs for Brums 'Noise to Men'.

Selected discography

Solo

• 2006 – Congs For Brums
• 2010 – Noise for Men

with Moe! Staiano

• 2001 – The Lateness of Yearly Presentations

with Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra!

• 2006 – An Inescapable Siren Within Earshot Distance Therein and Other Whereabouts
• 2007 - Two Rooms of Uranium Inside 83 Markers

with Graham Connah

• 2001 – The Only Song We Know

with Good For Cows

• 2001 – Good for Cows
• 2003 – Cows Less Than or Equal To
• 2004 – Bebop Fantasy
• 2008 – 10th Concert Anniversary
• 2010 – Audumla

with Theory Of Ruin

• 2002 – Counter-Culture Nosebleed
• 2003 – Frontline Posterchild

with Mitch Marcus Quintet

• 2002 – Entropious

with Lou Harrison

• 2003 – Drums Along the Pacific

with John Zorn

• 2003 – Voices in the Wilderness

with Xiu Xiu

• 2008 - "Women as Lovers"
• 2007 - "Remixed and Covered" as Good for Cows
• 2005 - "La Foret"
• 2003 – A Promise
• 2002 - "Knife Play" with Greg Saunier

with Secret Chiefs 3

• 2004 – Book of Horizons
• 2008 – Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9

with Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant

• 2004 – Sister Phantom Owl Fish

with Aaron Novik

• 2004 – Gubbish: Notations in Tonations
• 2006 - Kipple: "Flashes of Irrational Happiness"

with Redressers

• 2004 – To Each According...

with Carla Bozulich

• 2004 – I'm Gonna Stop Killing

with Will Bernard Trio

• 2005 – Directions to My House

with Fever Pitch

• 2005 – Just Drums 2 Project

with Sean Hayes

• 2006 – Big Black Hole and the Little Baby Star

with Todd Sickafoose

• 2006 – Blood Orange

with Ben Goldberg Quintet

• 2006 – The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact

with 7 Year Rabbit Cycle

• 2006 – Ache Horns

with Fred Frith, Darren Johnston, Devin Hoff and Larry Ochs

• 2007 – Reason to Move

with Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog

• 2008 - Party Intellectuals

External links

• Ches Smith homepage
• Ches Smith on DAZ.com
• Ches Smith at Allmusic
• Picture gallary at downtownmusic.net