Ches Smith

Ches Smith
Background information
Birth name	Gordon McChesney Smith
Born	USA
Genres	Jazz, rock
Website	chessmith.com

Ches Smith is an American musician, whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone.

He recorded and performed an album of his own solo percussion pieces entitled Congs for Brums (2006). In 2010 he released Noise to Men.

Discography

Ches Smith.

As leader/co-leader

• 2006 – Congs for Brums (Free Porcupine Society)
• 2010 – Noise to Men (Self Released)
• 2010 – Finally Out of My Hands (Skirl)
• 2012 – Psycho Predictions (88)
• 2013 – Hammered (Clean Feed)
• 2014 – International Hoohah (ForTune)
• 2016 – The Bell (ECM)
• 2018 – A Complete and Tonal Disaster (Self Released)
• 2021 – Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
• 2022 – Interpret It Well (Pyroclastic)
• 2024 – Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)

As sideman

with Tim Berne

• 2012 – Snakeoil (ECM)
• 2013 – Shadow Man (ECM)
• 2015 – You've Been Watching Me (ECM)
• 2015 – Spare (Screwgun)
• 2017 – Incidentals (ECM)
• 2020 – The Fantastic Mrs. 10 (Intakt)
• 2020 – The Deceptive 4 (Live) (Intakt)
• 2022 - Decay (Screwgun)

with Trevor Dunn's trio-convulsant

• 2004 – Sister Phantom Owl Fish (Ipecac)

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 (Tzadik)
• 2016 – The Painted Bird (Tzadik)
• 2018 – The Urmuz Epigrams (Tzadik)
• 2018 – In a Convex Mirror (Tzadik)
• 2020 – Les Maudits (Tzadik)
• 2021 – Heaven and Earth Magick (Tzadik)
• 2022 – Incerto (Tzadik)
• 2022 – Suite For Piano (Tzadik)

with Xiu Xiu

• 2002 – Knife Play with Greg Saunier
• 2003 – A Promise
• 2005 – La Foret
• 2007 – Remixed and Covered as Good for Cows
• 2008 – Women as Lovers
• 2010 – Dear God I Hate Myself
• 2012 – Always
• 2013 – Nina

with David Torn

• 2019 – Sun Of Goldfinger (ECM)
• 2020 – Sun Of Goldfinger (Congratulations to You) (Screwgun)
• 2022 - Ozmir (Screwgun)

with Secret Chiefs 3

• 2004 – Book of Horizons
• 2008 – Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9
• 2013 – Book of Souls: Folio A
• 2019 – The Book Beri'ah Vol 10—Malkhut

with Aaron Novik

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

with Redressers

• 2004 – To Each According...

with Carla Bozulich/Evangelista

• 2009 – Prince of Truth
• 2011 – In Animal Tongue
• 2014 – 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
• 2013 – Your Turn
• 2018 – YRU Still Here?

with Leonid Fedorov, Vladimir Volkov, John Medeski, Marc Ribot

• 2010 – RazinRimILev

with Dave Holland

• 2018 – Uncharted Territories

with Moonface

• 2018 – This One's for the Dancer & This One's for the Dancer's Bouquet

External links

• Ches Smith homepage
• Ches Smith on DAZ.com
• Ches Smith at AllMusic
• Picture gallery at downtownmusic.net