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Charles Fambrough

Philadelphia, United States

Charles Fambrough is credited on 283 releases across 64 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1978–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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283

Pressings credited

64

Albums

6

Decades active

18

In collections

Biography

Charles Fambrough (August 25, 1950 – January 1, 2011) was an American jazz bassist, composer and record producer from Philadelphia. Having played together in a previous (cover) band Fambrough joined Grover Washington Jr.'s band in 1970. Some five years later he moved over to Airto Moreira's band. After two years there he hooked up with McCoy Tyner to become anchor of Tyner's band, until 1982. In that year Fambrough joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and played there during the early 1980s. When Wynton Marsalis left the Messengers to form his own band, Fambrough followed him. In the liner notes of album The Proper Angle (CD) Fambrough mentions the lessons he learned from McCoy Tyner and Art Blakey. The latter taught him to play behind a horn player and within a rhythm section. Suffering from kidney failure, congestive heart failure, and pulmonary hypertension, he died in 2011 at the age of 60.

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Credited work

283 releases · 64 albums · active 1978–2025

  • Performance · 384
  • Production · 7

Studios: Bubba's Jazz Restaurant · Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · CBS Studios, New York · Triiad Recording Studios

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