PAUL CHAMBERS – Four Classic Albums (2 CDs) AVID

AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic Album series with a re-mastered 2CD release from Paul Chambers, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details
“Whims of Chambers”; “Paul Chambers Quintet; “Bass on Top” and “Go…”
Take a look at the discography of our latest guest jazzman and wonder at how one man could have made so much fine music and played with so many outstanding jazz musicians and yet have tragically died at the tender age of just 33 years old! Paul Chambers was truly one of the greatest jazz bass players who ever lived and the list of classic albums he played on is monumental. These include, the best-selling jazz album of all time, Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue (who could forget the classic bass opening to “So What”) and Coltrane’s Giant Steps and Blue Train, to name but a couple. We have chosen four classic Chambers solo outings but a check on the personnel on these albums will show you the kind of company he was keeping and bear in mind he would have appeared on most of these guys own solo albums along the way.

CD1
1-7: ‘Whims Of Chambers’
1. Omicron
2. Whims Of Chambers
3. Nita
4. We Six
5. Dear Ann
6. Tales Of The Fingers
7. Just For The Love
8-13: ‘Paul Chambers Quintet’
8. Minor Run-Down
9. The Hand Of Love
10. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
11. Four Strings
12. What’s New
13. Beauteous

CD2
1-6: ‘Bass On Top’
1. Yesterdays
2. You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To
3. Chasin’ The Bird
4. Dear Old Stockholm
5. The Theme
6. Confessin’
7-12: ‘Go’
7. Awful Mean
8. Just Friends
9. Julie Ann
10. There Is No Greater Love
11. Ease It
12. I Got Rhythm