More Wilmington music: Local jazz musician Joe Chambers releases album for legendary Blue Note label What is 'Dance Kobina'? He retired from teaching in 2013, but still lives in Wilmington. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Jazz at the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Department of Music. In 2008, after an extended time teaching at The New School in New York, Chambers moved from the Big Apple to the Port City to become the Thomas S. In 1998, Chambers recorded his first solo album for Blue Note, 'Mirrors.' More Wilmington music: 22 Local bands and musicians who made noise outside the Port City Over the course of a 60-year career as a jazz drummer, vibraphonist and composer, Chambers has played with the likes of Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie and Chick Corea, as well as with lesser-known but widely respected jazz artists including Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and Joe Henderson. In 1963 he moved to New York to play jazz, and almost immediately became a session drummer for Blue Note Records, which over the decades has released albums from such icons as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and others. Who is Joe Chambers?Ĭhambers, 80, is from Philadelphia. Chambers now boasts nearly 167,000 monthly listeners on the Spotify streaming service.

National Public Radio touted 'Dance Kobina' alongside such artists as country star Shania Twain as one of the top album releases of the year so far, and jazz fans worldwide would seem to concur. 3 to no small fanfare in the music press. Was concurred, and Chambers' new album, 'Dance Kobina,' now including some of the music he recorded in Montreal, as well as songs he recorded with the trio in New York, was released Feb. Chambers quickly contacted Don Was, head of the legendary jazz label Blue Note Records, and told him they needed to rethink the album, which he'd originally recorded with a trio in New York.

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