Elmer Chambers

Dallas Elmer Chambers ( * 1897 in Bayonne, New Jersey; † ca 1952 in Jersey City ) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.

Elmer Chambers, who also had the nickname Frog and Muffle Jaws Chambers, played at the beginning of his career as a musician in the marching bands during the First World War. There he met the bandleader Sam Wooding, in which he appeared in Atlantic City, Detroit and New York City. Before the band went on tour, he left Wooding and worked the early 20s when Fletcher Henderson both in large and in small ensemble and worked beside at recordings of blues singers Alberta Hunter, Rosa Henderson, Clara Smith and Ida Cox. He also played with Louis Armstrong and was involved in the sessions for Decca, Verve and Paramount, as well as with Coleman Hawkins, Don Redman, Buster Bailey and Joe " Fox " Smith.

In 1926, Chambers left the Henderson band and then belonged to the orchestras of Ellsworth Reynolds ( 1926), Billy Fowler (1926 /27) and Russell Wooding (1930 ) on. He also worked in theater orchestras, revues went with on tour, also with Fats Waller, Sidney Bechet and June Cole, before he partially retired in the 1930s from the music business.