Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist and composer most notable for his work with Wayne Shorter on the album Adam's Apple. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s Chambers gigged with several high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Lou Donaldson, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre and Bobby Hutcherson. Other artists Joe Chambers has worked with in his career include Archie Shepp, David Murray, Joe Henderson and Max Roach.
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Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942) is an American jazz drummer, pianist and composer most notable for his work with Wayne Shorter on the album Adam's Apple. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s Chambers gigged with several high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Lou Donaldson, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre and Bobby Hutcherson. Other artists Joe Chambers has worked with in his career include Archie Shepp, David Murray, Joe Henderson 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 Social Research's Mannes College of 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, in Wilmington, North Carolina.
