DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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‘I was setting up pots and pans to hit at five years old’
CHRIS SEARLE interviews drummer JOE CHAMBERS on the release of his new album DANCE KOBINA
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
JOE CHAMBERS is one of the last survivors of the clutch of great bop and post-bop drummers, a brother percussionist of Max Roach, Art Blakey, Philly Jo Jones, Roy Haynes and Tony Williams.
Born in Stoneacre, Virginia, in 1942, as a young man Chambers was a regular drummer of many of the classic ’60s Blue Note albums with sessions led by saxophonists Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson and Sam Rivers, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Andrew Hill and vibes nonpareil Bobby Hutcherson.
He was also an essential component of the Max Roach all-drums ensemble, M’Boom.
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