Paul Chambers

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. (22. huhtikuuta 1935 – 4. tammikuuta 1969) oli 1950- sekä 60-luvun tärkeimpiä jazzbasisteja. Hän syntyi Pittsburghissa, mutta vietti nuoruutensa Detroitissa. Hän ja Slam Stewart olivat ensimmäisiä jazzbasisteja, jotka soittivat sooloja myös jousella. Vuodesta 1955 aina vuoteen 1963 hän oli Miles Davisin kvintetin jäsen, ja soitti muun muassa kuuluisalla Davisin Kind of Blue-levyllä.

Chambers soitti myös John Coltranen albumilla Giant Steps. Coltranen kappale  "Mr. P. C." on nimetty Chambersin mukaan. Hän levytti monien kuuluisien muusikoiden kanssa, kuten Cannonball Adderley, Donald Byrd, Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean ja Bud Powell. Tämän lisäksi hän toimi yhtyeen johtajana.

Chambersilla oli ongelmia sekä alkoholin että huumeiden suhteen. Hän kuoli 33-vuotiaana tuberkuloosiin vuonna 1969.

Tärkeitä levytyksiä 

yhtyeen johtajana:

 Chambers' Music (Aladdin/Jazz West, 1956)
 Whims Of Chambers (Blue Note, 1956)
 Paul Chambers Quintet (Blue Note, 1957)
 Bass on Top (Blue Note, 1957)
 Go (Vee-Jay, 1959)
 1st Bassman (Vee-Jay, 1960)
 High Step (Blue Note, 1956) (w/John Coltrane)
The East/West Controversy (Xanadu, 1957) (w/Hampton Hawes) 
 We Three (Prestige/New Jazz, 1958) (w/Roy Haynes & Phineas Newborn)
 Ease It (Charly/Affinity, 1959) (w/Julian "Cannonball" Adderley)
 Just Friends (Charly/Le Jazz, 1959) (w/Julian "Cannonball" Adderley)

yhtyeen jäsenenä:

Cannonball Adderley
 Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (EmArcy, 1955)
 Cannonball Adderley Quintet In Chicago (Mercury, 1959)
 Cannonball Takes Charge (Riverside, 1959)
 Cannonball and Coltrane (Phillips, 1965)

Nat Adderley
 Introducing Nat Adderley (Mercury/Wing, 1955); reissued as Them Adderleys (Limelight, 1966)
 Naturally! (Jazzland, 1961)

Toshiko Akiyoshi
 The Toshiko Trio (Storyville, 1956) 
 Toshiko Mariano and her Big Band (Vee-Jay, 1964)  

Lorez Alexandria
 Alexandria The Great (Impulse!, 1964)

Chet Baker
 Chet (Riverside, 1959)

Tina Brooks
 Back To The Tracks (Blue Note, 1960)

Kenny Burrell
 Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1956)
 John Jenkins With Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1957)
  Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (Prestige, 1958)

Sonny Clark
 Sonny's Crib (Blue Note, 1957)
 Sonny Clark Trio (Blue Note, 1957)
 Cool Struttin' (Blue Note, 1958)
 Blues In The Night (Blue Note, 1958)
 My Conception (Blue Note, 1959)

Jimmy Cleveland
 Introducing Jimmy Cleveland And His All Stars (EmArcy, 1955)

John Coltrane
 Blue Train (Blue Note, 1957)
 Coltrane (Prestige, 1957)
 Bahia (Prestige, 1958)
 Black Pearls (Prestige, 1958)
 Lush Life (Prestige, 1958)
 Settin' The Pace (Prestige, 1958)
 Traneing In (Prestige, 1958)
 Soultrane (Prestige, 1958)
 Stardust (Prestige, 1958)
 The Believer (Prestige, 1958)
 The Last Trane (Prestige, 1958)
 (w/Milt Jackson) Bags and Trane (Atlantic, 1960)
 Giant Steps (Atlantic, 1960)
 (w/Julian "Cannonball" Adderley) Cannonball and Coltrane (Phillips, 1965)

Miles Davis
 Miles (Prestige, 1955)
 'Round About Midnight (Columbia, 1955)
 [[Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet|Cookin]] (Prestige, 1956)
 [[Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet|Relaxin''']] (Prestige, 1956) 
 [[Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet|Steamin]] (Prestige, 1956) 
 [[Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet|Workin]] (Prestige, 1956)
 Collectors' Items (Prestige, 1956)
 Miles Ahead (Columbia, 1957)
 Milestones (Columbia, 1958)
 Porgy and Bess (Columbia, 1958)
 Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959)
 Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960)
 Someday My Prince Will Come (Columbia, 1961)
 Quiet Nights (Columbia, 1962)Kenny Dorham Blue Spring (Riverside, 1959)
 Quiet Kenny (Prestige, 1959)
 Whistle Stop (Blue Note, 1961)Kenny Drew Kenny Drew Trio (Riverside, 1956)Bill Evans On Green Dolphin Street (Riverside, 1959)Gil Evans' Gil Evans & Ten (Prestige, 1957)
 The Complete Pacific Jazz Sessions' (Pacific Jazz, 1958) 
 The Individualism of Gil Evans (Verve, 1964)

Curtis Fuller
 Curtis Fuller with Red Garland (Prestige, 1957)
 Curtis Fuller Jazztette with Benny Golson (Savoy, 1959)

Red Garland
 A Garland of Red (Prestige, 1956)
 Dig It! (Prestige, 1957)
 Groovy (Prestige, 1957)
 Red Garland Revisited! (Prestige, 1957)
 Red Garland's Piano (Prestige, 1957)
 P.C. Blues (Prestige, 1957)
 Can't See For Lookin' (Prestige, 1958)
 It's a Blue World (Prestige, 1958)
 Manteca (Prestige, 1958)
 All Kinds of Weather (Prestige, 1959)

Grant Green
 First Session (Blue Note, 1960)

Herbie Hancock
 Inventions and Dimensions (Blue Note, 1963)

Barry Harris
 Bull's Eye (Fantasy, 1968)

Dexter Gordon
 Dexter Calling (Blue Note, 1961)

Benny Golson
 Benny Golson's New York Scene (Contemporary, 1957)
 The Modern Touch (Riverside, 1958)
 Groovin' With Golson (Prestige, 1959)
 Turning Point (Mercury, 1962)

Johnny Griffin
 A Blowing Session (Blue Note, 1957)
 The Congregation (Blue Note, 1957)

Joe Henderson
 Four (Verve, 1968)
 Straight, No Chaser (Verve, 1968)

Freddie Hubbard
 Here to Stay (Blue Note, 1962)
Milt "Bags" Jackson
 Bags and Trane (Atlantic, (w/John Coltrane) 1960)
 Statements (Impulse!, 1961)

John Jenkins
  John Jenkins With Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1957)

J. J. Johnson
 The Eminent J.J. Johnson, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1955)
 Trombone For 2 (w/Kai Winding) (Columbia, 1955)
 The Great Kai & J. J.  (w/Kai Winding)(Impulse!, 1960)

Philly Joe Jones
 Philly Joe's Beat (Atlantic, 1960)
 Philly Joe Jones & Elvin Jones Together! (Atlantic, 1964)

Wynton Kelly
 Piano (Riverside, 1958)
 Kelly Blue (Riverside, 1959)
 Kelly at Midnite (Vee-Jay, 1960)
 Kelly Great (Vee-Jay, 1960)
 Wynton Kelly! (Vee-Jay, 1961)
 Comin' in the Back Door (Verve, 1963)

Abbey Lincoln
 That's Him (Riverside, 1957)

Jackie McLean
 McLean's Scene (Prestige/New Jazz, 1957)
 Jackie's Bag (Blue Note, 1959)
 New Soil (Blue Note, 1959)
 Capuchin Swing (Blue Note, 1960)

Blue Mitchell
 Out of the Blue (Riverside, 1958)

Hank Mobley
 Tenor Conclave (Prestige, 1956)
 Peckin' Time  (Blue Note, 1958)
 Roll Call (Blue Note, 1960)
 Soul Station (Blue Note, 1960)
 Workout (Blue Note, 1961)
 Another Workout (Blue Note, 1961)
 The Turnaround (Blue Note, 1965)

Thelonious Monk
 Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1956)

Lee Morgan
 Lee Morgan Sextet (Blue Note, 1956)
 Lee Morgan Vol. 3 (Blue Note, 1957)
 City Lights (Blue Note, 1957)
 The Cooker (Blue Note, 1957)
 Lee-Way (Blue Note, 1960)
 Here's Lee Morgan (Vee-Jay, 1960)
 Charisma (Blue Note, 1966)
 The Rajah (Blue Note, 1966)

Wes Montgomery
 Full House (Riverside, 1962)
 Smokin' at the Half Note (Verve, 1965)
 Willow Weep for Me (Verve, 1969)

Oliver Nelson
 The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse!, 1961)

Phineas Newborn, Jr.
 A World of Piano (Contemporary, 1961)

Art Pepper
 Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section (Contemporary, 1957)
 Gettin' Together (Contemporary, 1960)

Bud Powell
 Bud! The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 3) (Blue Note, 1957)
 The Scene Changes: The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol. 5) (Blue Note, 1958)

Ike Quebec
 Blue And Sentimental (Blue Note, 1961)Sonny Red Out of the Blue (Blue Note, 1960)Freddie Redd Shades of Redd (Blue Note, 1960)
 Redd's Blues (Blue Note, 1961)Sonny Rollins Tenor Madness (Prestige, 1956)
 Sonny Rollins: Volume 2 (Blue Note, 1957)
 Sound of Sonny (Riverside, 1957)Louis Smith Smithville (Blue Note, 1958)Frank Strozier Fantastic (Koch Jazz, 1960)Art Taylor A.T.'s Delight (Blue Note, 1960)Clark Terry Serenade to a Bus Seat (Riverside, 1957)Kai Winding' The Trombone Sound (Columbia, 1955)
 Trombone For 2  (w/J. J. Johnson)(Columbia, 1955)
  The Great Kai & J. J.'' (w/J. J. Johnson)(Impulse!, 1960)

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