MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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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
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
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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