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| Joe Chambers with University of Missouri-Kansas City Jazz Orchestra  Joe Chambers Jazz Residency & Performance with University of Missouri- Kansas City Jazz Orchestra. Director- Bobby Watson. Monday, April 8, 2013 7:30 pm. Performing selections from Joe Chambers Moving Pictures Orchestra release (Savant SCD 2120 ). Moving Pictures Suite And Cherry Juice, (Thad Jones), The Outlaw, (Horace Silver, Arr. Chambers), Magic Flea, (Nestico), Good Morning Irene, (Dale, Arr. McConnell), Queen Bee, (Nestico), Two As One, (Thad Jones), Tu-Way-Pock-E-Way – (Chambers), Ecaroh, Horace Silver, (Chambers), Vanguard Revisited, (Lussier) Student Big Band Compositions and Arrangements.Joe Chambers Biography Joe Chambers has worked with some of the most influential jazz figures of the last several decades and is a recognized performer and composer whose works have been performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. As a sideman and leader, Chambers has recorded more than 500 albums and CDs. He has performed and recorded with Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Andrew Hill and many more. Chamber's credits include Hubbard's "Breaking Point, " Hutcherson's "Components, " Shorter's "Schizophrenia." and "Etcetera, " Hill's "Compulsion, " and Tyner's "Tender Moments, " as well as Archie Shepp's "New Thing at Newport, " Charles Mingus' "Like a Bird, " Chick Corea's "Tones for Joan's Bones, " and many others. Chambers' compositions have been covered by Hutcherson, Hubbard and M'Boom; he has also contributed to soundtracks for several Spike Lee films, including "Mo' Better Blues." Chambers is the first Thomas S. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Jazz in Department of Music at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His most recent recording is "Joe Chambers moving pictures orchestra live" of Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in New York City, Savant 2120, released May 2012; nominated for Grammy, in the Big Band category. write your comments about the article :: © 2013 Jazz News :: home page |