Joe Chambers

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Joe Chambers
Birth name	Joe Chambers
Born	June 25, 1942 (1942-06-25)
Origin	Stoneacre, Virginia, United States
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Musician, composer
Instruments	Drum kit, piano, vibraphone
Associated acts	Wayne Shorter, Eric Dolphy, M'Boom

Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s and 70s Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Lou Donaldson, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre and Bobby Hutcherson. Other artists Joe Chambers has worked with in his career include Andrew Hill, Archie Shepp, Miles Davis, David Murray, Joe Henderson, Franck Amsallem and Max Roach. He has been a member of several incarnations of Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble.

He has also taught, including at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, NY. At the school he leads the "Outlaw Band," 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.

Discography

As 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 sideman

With Donald Byrd

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

With Chick Corea

• Tones for Joan's Bones Atlantic Records, 1966

With Miles Davis

• The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions, Blue Note Records, 1969

With Art Farmer

• Something Tasty, Baystate, 1979

With Don Friedman

• Metamorphosis, Prestige Records, 1966

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 features a set 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 (1969) - Black Lion Records

With McCoy Tyner

• Tender Moments Blue Note, 1967

With Miroslav Vitous

• Infinite Search, Embryo, 1969

With Tyrone Washington

• Natural Essence Blue Note, 1967

With Joe Zawinul

• Zawinul Atlantic, 1970

External links

• Interview with Brian L. Knight