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Chambers, Paul
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Chambers, Paul
Source: African American National Biography
Word Count: 1252 Includes: Further Reading(22 Apr. 1935–4 Jan. 1969), bassist known as “Mr. P. C.,” was born Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Little is known of his parents and early life. After his mother died when he was thirteen, Chambers moved to Detroit, Michigan, with his family. In high school he played the baritone saxophone and then the tuba, but sometime in 1949 he began to play the string bass. He was soon working professionally with the guitarist Kenny Burrell, the trumpeter Thad Jones, the pianist Hank Jones, and other musicians in the Detroit area. In 1952 he began taking lessons with a bassist in the Detroit Symphony and played with a classical group called the Detroit String Band. Between 1952 and 1955he also studied, off and on, at Cass Tech and played in the school's symphony orchestra ...
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