Linc Chamberland
Doc
Hay have any of you Jazz Guitar players ever heard of Linc Chamberland?
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Doctor "G"
The Caribbean Beach Bums
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Tom Jaffe
Yes.
I own two of his LP's which I believe were recorded on Muse.
Don & Nan Mitchell
I heard OF Linc Chamberland from one of my old guitar teachers, John
Stowell. Apparentlty Linc was something of a guitar guru back in
Connecticut (where John is from), whose life was tragically cut short by
leukemia before he ever realized much in the way of commercial success or
recording. John told me he visited him in the hospital when he very ill
and admired that Linc didn't seem bitter, but rather thought it was ironic
that some of the guys he had taught were already hitting the big time while
he was there in bed dying. Sad story. I guess much of the scale and
arpeggio material that John gave me while I was his student was stuff he
had gotten from Linc.
Don
Portland, Or.
Doc <doc...@connix.com> wrote in article <657lfl$g...@beast.connix.com>...
n...@emerald.cns.net.au
On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 17:11:08 -0500, "Doc" <doc...@connix.com> wrote:
>Hay have any of you Jazz Guitar players ever heard of Linc Chamberland?
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>Doctor "G"
>The Caribbean Beach Bums
>doc...@connix.com
>http://www.connix.com/~doctorg
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Sure have! I first heard Linc Chamberland in 1979 here in Australia
via an album "A Place Within" ( Muse MR5064) which just happened to
have a fellow Aussie playing bass, Dr Lyn Christie. It also features
Dave Liebman. When I first heard it, I was astonished. I had never
heard such an intense and frightening player. It was quite some time
befoe I could bring myself to listen to it for a second time. My
friends used to jokingly compare other records to it as a kind of
yardstick of "out-thereness". As far as we were concerned Linc was
the most accomplished and modern bop player we'd ever heard to the
extent that it was just too much! Mr Scary indeed!
Biographically, he appears to have resided for the most part in
Connecticut where he was a guitar teacher of some fame. I note from
the liner notes that he was often described as the "one that got away"
and ironically he appears to have only been "discovered" by the
mainstream press posthumously when Guitar Player in their March 1989
issue had the sense to include him in their listing of the Greatest
Unknown Guitarists. Sadly, with the arrival of that issue, I learned
that Linc died in 1988 after a battle with leukemia aged 40.
I've got a second album called "Yet To Come" on Muse MR5283 recorded
in 1981. To quote the liner notes from 1977's A Place Within, "the
music offers no compromise and holds back nothing. I don't know how
well known he is in the US or elsewhere but all the jazz guitar
players I know in Australia have heard him.
n...@emerald.cns.net.au
Stephen G. Carl
n...@emerald.cns.net.au wrote:
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> Sure have! I first heard Linc Chamberland in 1979 here in Australia
> via an album "A Place Within" ( Muse MR5064) which just happened to
> have a fellow Aussie playing bass, Dr Lyn Christie. It also features
> Dave Liebman. When I first heard it, I was astonished. I had never
I remember that record. His playing on that was nothing short of
amazing! I hope that stuff becomes available on CD someday (though
I'm afraid that's not likely).
Steve
EDzubak
Re: Linc,
Linc used to teach the guitarist and bassist in out high school jazz ensemble
back in '73-'75.
Our two guys brought Linc in to "coach" the rhythm section. I liked him, he was
a great teacher who had a gentle way of telling you you were doing poorly, or
doing well.
Linc lived in Norwalk, Conn. and had a son, Scott, who was a pretty good Alto
player.
A lot of good players went to Norwalk High School: Adam Nussbaum, Rob Aries,
Billy Bickford, Horace Silver, Vince Mendoza. Also, John Scofield was from
nearby New Canaan; a real musical area of the country, Fairfield County was.
Ed Dzubak