Paul Chambers
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. was an American jazz double-bassist and composer who worked in the jazz and bebop genres.
Born in Pittsburgh on April 22, 1935, Chambers received his education at Cass Technical High School. He went on to work as a recording artist in the United States, contributing to jazz and bebop as both a performer and composer. His activity as a recording artist documented his involvement in both genres across multiple sessions.
Chambers worked across the jazz and bebop genres throughout his life, and his output as a composer added a creative dimension to his role as an instrumentalist. He died in New York City on January 4, 1969, at the age of thirty-three. His recorded work stands as the primary record of his engagement with jazz and bebop as a double-bassist and composer.
Quotes by Paul Chambers
Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
They were charging a monthly fee to my credit card. It took months to get it stopped.
There's a whole industry out there that tries to get people to pay to find out about their credit reports.
When people are faced with a tragedy of this nature, they can really show their best, and that seems to be what is happening here.
We are like everyone else dealing with this. BellSouth had about 1,000 employees without homes and we still have 200 employees that are not accounted for.
