Joe Chambers & M’Boom Re-percussion Concert Held At Chester HS 12/9

Joe Chambers and M'Boom Re-percussion Concert and Clinic/Demonstration Thursday, December 9th 9:30 a.m.
Chester High School, Chester, Pa.

Legendary jazz drummer and percussionist Joe Chambers is pleased to announce his appearance Thursday, December 9th 9:30 a.m. at Chester High School in Chester, Pa.
Accompanied by the internationally acclaimed ensemble M'Boom Re-percussion

This appearance will be a special homecoming for Mr. Chambers as he attended Chester High School in the 1960's.

Chester High School is located at 9th and Barclay Streets in Chester, PA.

About M'Boom Re-percussion

M'Boom was the brainchild of Max Roach, the late percussionist, visionary, and seminal figure of modern jazz. In 1970, Roach gathered notable drummers and percussionists to explore and compose for the myriad instruments in the percussion family and named the group "M'Boom." M'Boom (pronounced 'em-boom) has a double meaning: it is an onomatopoeia, or "sound word" that sounds like the object of description - boom, pow, crack, etc.; M'Boom is also the name of a secret order of drummers in northern Senegal. Beginning in September 1970, M'Boom learned every category and combination of percussion. After Max Roach's death in 2007 and the death of three other members, Joe Chambers, Warren Smith, and Ray Mantilla vowed to carry on M'Boom's vision.

Steve Berrios is considered by his peers to be one of the top Latin jazz drummers, and has recorded and toured with Mongo Santamaria, Randy Weston, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Michael Brecker, Grover Washington Jr., Ray Barretto, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Hilton Ruiz, Leon Thomas, La Lupe, Miriam Makeba, Celia Cruz, Nancy Wilson, Kathleen Battle, and with his own group Son Bachéch. His second CD, "And Then Some," recorded with Son Bachéche on Milestone Records, was nominated for a Grammy in 1996.

Joe Chambers has recorded more than 500 albums and CDs. He has performed and recorded with MiLes Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Andrew Hill, and more. Chambers' credits include Hubbard's "Breaking Point," Hutcherson's "Components," Shorter's "Schizophrenia." and "Etcetera," Hill's "Compulsion," Tyner's "Tender Moments," Archie Shepp's "New Thing at Newport," Charles Mingus' "Like a Bird," Chick Corea's "Tones for Joan's Bones," and others. Chambers' compositions have been covered by Hutcherson, Hubbard and M'Boom; he has also contributed to soundtracks for several Spike Lee films, including "Mo' Better Blues." Chambers is the first Thomas S. Kenan Distinguished Professor of Jazz in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Eli Fountain joined M'Boom in 1981. He has performed with MuhAl Richard Abrams, The Temptations, Aretha, Franklin, and Geri Allen. His compositions include the percussion ballet "Play," written for New York's Complexions Dance Company.

Ray Mantilla entered the international spotlight in 1960 with flutist Herbie Mann, and later embarked on a series of tours with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. In 1977, Mantilla became the first North American Latin musician to play in Cuba since the Cuban Revolution. He has recorded on more than 200 albums. Some of his credits include Max Roach, Charles Mingus, Ray Barretto, Gato Barbieri, Sonny Stitt, Bobby Watson, Herbie Mann, Tito Puente, Cedar Walton, and Freddie Hubbard. In 2003, Mantilla signed with Savant Records and released "Man-Ti-Ya."
In 2007 he was voted best percussionist by the Jazz Journalist Association. His latest CD is 'Good Vibrations on the Sarvant label.

Warren I. Smith has performed extensively in the studio and on Broadway, recording and performing with Dionne Warwick, Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, and Aretha Franklin. He began teaching at Adelphi University in 1969 and at the State University of New York in Old Westbury from 1971-1996.

 

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