Joe Chambers

For other uses, see Joe Chambers (basketball) and Joseph Chambers (disambiguation).

Joe Chambers
Birth name	Joe Chambers
Born	(1942-06-25) June 25, 1942
Origin	near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instruments	Drum kit, piano, vibraphone
Years active	1963–current
Labels	Blue Note Records, Atlantic Records, Columbia Records, Savant Records.
Associated acts	Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter, Archie Shepp, M'Boom, Sam Rivers, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd.

Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942, near Philadelphia) is an American jazz drummer, as well as a pianist, vibraphonist and composer. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s and 1970s 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.

He has also taught, including at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City. 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

• 1974: The 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 (Savant Records)
• 2010: Horace to Max (Savant Records)
• 2012: Joe Chambers Moving Pictures Orchestra (Savant Records)
• 2016: Landscapes (Savant)

As sideman

With Franck Amsallem

• Summer Times (Sunnyside Records, 2003)

With Donald Byrd

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

With Chick Corea

• Tones for Joan's Bones (Atlantic Records, 1966)

With Stanley Cowell

• Brilliant Circles (Freedom, 1972)
• Back to the Beautiful (Concord, 1989)

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 (Freedom, 1968 [1975])

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
• Blue Note Label Artist's page