Joe Chambers - Samba de Maracatu CD ETJS-56 Recorded at the famous Greenwich

Recorded at the famous Greenwich Village club

Though he first appeared on Herbie Hancock’s 1963 album My Point of View

a Garden of Electronics in the courtyard of an Echo Park home

This record is expansive

it’s both Ra’s signature tune and a manifesto of his space-age escapist philosophy

Joe Chambers - Samba de Maracatu CD ETJS-56 Recorded at the famous GreenwichBlue Note, 2021 The great drummer Joe Chambers was a stalwart presence on many of the most progressive Blue Note albums of the mid 1960s including Wayne Shorters Adams Apple, Bobby Hutchersons Components, Freddie Hubbards Breaking Point, Joe Hendersons Mode for Joe, McCoy Tyner Tender Moments, and many more. However, it wasnt until 1998 that Chambers made his own Blue Note debut as a leader with his album Mirrors. Now the venerated drummer,