Artist: Joe Chambers

Title: Horace to Max

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2010

Label: Savant

UPC: 633842210728

Genre: Jazz

Album Tracks

1. Asiatic Raes
2. Ecaroh
3. Man from South Africa
4. Mendacity
5. Portia
6. Water Babies
7. Lonesome Lover
8. Evidence
9. Afreeka

Joe Chambers is one of the drummers from the fifties and sixties who, along with Max Roach and Art Blakey has influenced an entire generation of drummers. With an ensemble that includes stalwarts Eric Alexander on tenor saxophone, Xavier Davis on piano and others, Chambers here breathes fresh life into a number of well-known jazz classics. While the overall approach is mainstream, the sound is unequivocally contemporary. It remains reverential to tradition yet with a clear regard for jazz as a living, breathing entity.