Thursday, November 27, 2008

Paul Chambers



"Paul Chambers was a great genius of the bass. He was incredible, you know. Some of the things he did weren't really touched by anybody. Just things that he could do, nobody really knew what it was he was doing. He was fantastic." Herbie Hancock

Of the musicians who had been part of immortal sexteto of Miles Davis who recorded the “Kind of Blue” still does not speak of the baterista Jimmy Cobb nor of Paul Chambers, the against-stock exchange operator and a musician of who if he waited very…
Been born in 22 of April of 1955, she was perhaps the biggest contrastock exchange operator of its time, the premature death to the 33 years after end to one of the careers most promising and innovative, Chambers revolutionized the form as the instrument if it integrated in the band, brought a new philosophy the interpretation, are its first ground known of against low.
He entered with only 20 years the band of Miles Davis after having folloied J.J. Johnson in the Kay Widding Quintet and was part of its bands during 8 years, participating in all the workmanships most important of this period, including “Kind of Blue”. He folloied musicians as Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Donald Byrd, Bud Powell and Freddie Hubard.
He enters the years of 1955 and 1960 he led its proper bands and he recorded 10 workmanships, the three following subjects are of its quinteto
Tale of the Fingers
The Hand of Love
Beauteous

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