Joe Chambers

Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania^[1]) is an American jazz drummer, as well as a pianist, vibraphonist and composer. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year.^[2] In the 1960s and '70s Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter, and Chick Corea. He has released eight albums as a bandleader and been a member of several incarnations of Roach's M'Boom percussion ensemble.^[3]

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".^[4][5][6][7] 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.^[8]

Discography

As leader

• 1974: Almoravid (Muse)
• 1976: New World (Finite)
• 1977: Double Exposure (Muse)
• 1981: New York Concerto (Baystate)
• 1991: Phantom of the City
• 1998: Mirrors (Blue Note)
• 2006: The Outlaw
• 2010: Horace to Max

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 (Columbia, 1969)

With Art Farmer

• Something Tasty (Baystate, 1979)

With Don Friedman

• Metamorphosis (Prestige, 1966)

With Joe Henderson

• Mode for Joe (Blue Note, 1966)
• Big Band (Verve, 1992)

With Andrew Hill

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

With Freddie Hubbard

• Breaking Point, (Blue Note, 1964)

With Bobby Hutcherson

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

With Hubert Laws

• Wild Flower (Atlantic, 1972)

With M'Boom

• Re: Percussion (Strata-East, 1973)
• M'Boom (Columbia, 1979)
• Collage (Soul Note, 1984)
• To the Max! (Enja, 1990–91)

With Charles Mingus

• Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia, 1972)
• Something Like a Bird (Atlantic Records, 1978)
• Me, Myself an Eye (Atlantic Records, 1978)

With Sam Rivers

• Contours, (Blue Note Records, 1965)

With Woody Shaw

• In the Beginning (Muse 1965 [1983])
• The Iron Men with Anthony Braxton (Muse, 1977 [1980])

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 Ed Summerlin

• Sum of the Parts (Ictus, 1998)

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 Vitous

• Infinite Search, (Embryo, 1969)

With Tyrone Washington

• Natural Essence (Blue Note, 1967)

With Joe Zawinul

• Zawinul (Atlantic, 1970)

References

External links

• Interview with Brian L. Knight