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Joe Chambers Plays Wiggins Waterfront Park Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Free 8:00 PM

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JOE CHAMBERS plays WIGGINS WATERFRONT PARK!

TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2006

Joe Chambers featuring Onaje Allan Gumbs and Cheikh M'Baye Ensemble will be performing at THE 15TH ANNUAL SUNSET JAZZ SERIES.

All shows are FREE and begin at 8:00 PM.

Link to directions:

http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr=Mickle+Blvd+%26+Riverside+Dr,+ Camden,+NJ+08103+%4039.94321-75.130250&saddr=Manhattan,+NY&f=li&hl= en&cid=&ie=UTF8&om=1

The venue is just next door to the Camden Adventure Aquarium at Mickle Blvd. and Riverside Drive in Camden, NJ.

Special Events office for the park: 856-216-2122

About Joe Chambers:

Joe Chambers is one of the drummers from the fifties and sixties who, along with Max Roach, Art Blakey, Jimmy Cobb, and Tony Williams has influenced an entire generation of drummers. During the 1960s, Chambers contributed to many Blue Note recordings that have since become classics. On his latest recording The Outlaw (Savant), Chambers offers a release that showcases his abilities as a multi- instrumentalist and composer. Playing not only drums, but piano, vibes, marimba, synthesizer and writing all the arrangements and composing three of the tunes himself, Chambers manages to look to the past while, at the same time, keeping a solid eye on the future.

SPECIAL GUESTS:

Onaje Allan Gumbs is one of the industry's most respected and talented musical collaborators. He has worked for more than 30 years with an illustrious list of jazz, R&B and pop artists. In 1974, he created a special arrangement of “Stella By Starlight" for the New York Jazz Repertory Company as part of a concert honoring Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall. He followed that with live and recorded performances with such artists as Lenny White, Buster Williams, Cecil McBee and Betty Carter. In 1975, Onaje joined forces with trumpeter Nat Adderley as part of his quintet contributing to the group's releases on Atlantic and Steeplechase Records. Producer Nils Winter of Steeplechase upon hearing Onaje's improvisations, invited the young pianist to record a solo piano project entitled Onaje.

In 1976, Onaje provided the arrangement for the song that was to become the signature piece for the late great vocalist Phyllis Hyman, “Betcha By Golly Wow." In 1978, the Woody Shaw Group, for which Onaje was pianist, won the DownBeat Reader's Poll for Best Jazz Group and for Best Jazz Album for Rosewood. The album was later nominated for a Grammy. In 1985, Onaje lent his keyboard and arrangement skills to “Lady In My Life" on guitarist Stanley Jordan's widely acclaimed debut album Magic Touch on Blue Note Records.This was the first jazz album in history to maintain the #1 spot atop Billboard Magazine's jazz charts for more than 50 weeks.

In 1986, Onaje received the “Min-on Art Award" “in recognition of his great contribution to the promotion and development of a new musical movement for people with the aim of the creation of peace." Previous recipients of this prestigious honor include Tina Turner, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Buster Williams. Motivated by the goal for world peace, Onaje uses the practice of Nicherin Daishonin's Buddhism as a philosophical,spiritual and technical approach to his life and his music.

Onaje Allan Gumbs continues to contribute his talents as a keyboardist,composer, arranger and producer. He points out that “music has a healing force that is immeasurable and I am committed to being a part of it."

Cheikh M'Baye and Sing Sing Rhythm is a drum and dance company of Wolof griots from Medina, Senegal. Founded in 1987, the group is named for their ancestor, Sing Sing Faye, the first master drummer of the Cape Verde peninsula.

They have performed and toured extensively in Africa, Europe, Canada, the Virgin Islands, and the U.S., and have recorded with such luminaries as Peter Gabriel, Youssou N'Dour , Randy Weston, Jack DeJohnette, Angelique Kidjo, and Craig Harris. Their CD, Mame Bouna, is a true representation of the traditional rhythms of the Wolof people of Senegal.

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