Ches Smith

Ches Smith
Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson
Background information
Born	USA
Genres	Jazz, Rock
Website	www.chessmith.com

Ches Smith is an American musician whose primary instruments are drums, percussion, and vibraphone. He writes and performs music in a wide variety of contexts, including solo percussion, experimental rock bands, and small and large jazz ensembles.

Smith has performed with Good For Cows, Marc Ribot, Theory of Ruin, Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Xiu Xiu, Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant, Carla Bozulich, Beat Circus, Sean Hayes, Ben Goldberg, 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Ara Anderson and Fred Frith.

He has also recorded and performed a full-length album of his own solo percussion pieces entitled Congs For Brums (2006). In 2010 he released Congs for Brums 'Noise to Men'.

Selected discography

Solo

Ches Smith. Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson

• 2006 – Congs For Brums
• 2010 – Noise for Men

with Ches Smith Trio (Craig Taborn and Mat Maneri)

• 2016 - The Bell (ECM)

with These Arches

• 2010 – Finally out of my Hands (Skirl)
• 2013 – Hammered (Clean Feed)
• 2014 – International Hoohah (ForTune)

with Tim Berne

• 2012 – Snakeoil (ECM)
• 2013 – Shadow Man (ECM)
• 2015 – You've Been Watching Me (ECM)
• 2017 – Incidentals (ECM)

With Trevor Dunn's trio-convulsant

• Sister Phantom Owl Fish (Ipecac, 2004)

with Moe! Staiano

• 2001 – The Lateness of Yearly Presentations

with Moe! Staiano's Moe!kestra!

• 2006 – An Inescapable Siren Within Earshot Distance Therein and Other Whereabouts
• 2007 – Two Rooms of Uranium Inside 83 Markers

with Graham Connah

• 2001 – The Only Song We Know

with Good For Cows

• 2001 – Good for Cows
• 2003 – Cows Less Than or Equal To
• 2004 – Bebop Fantasy
• 2008 – 10th Concert Anniversary
• 2010 – Audumla

with Theory Of Ruin

• 2002 – Counter–Culture Nosebleed
• 2003 – Frontline Posterchild

with Mitch Marcus Quintet

• 2002 – Entropious

with Lou Harrison

• 2003 – Drums Along the Pacific

with John Zorn

• 2003 – Voices in the Wilderness

with Xiu Xiu

• 2002 – Knife Play with Greg Saunier
• 2003 – A Promise
• 2005 – La Foret
• 2007 – Remixed and Covered as Good for Cows
• 2008 – Women as Lovers
• 2010 – Dear God I Hate Myself
• 2012 – Always
• 2013 – Nina

with Secret Chiefs 3

• 2004 – Book of Horizons
• 2008 – Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9
• 2013 – Book Of Souls: Folio A

with Trevor Dunn's Trio–Convulsant

• 2004 – Sister Phantom Owl Fish

with Aaron Novik

• 2004 – Gubbish: Notations in Tonations
• 2006 – Kipple: Flashes of Irrational Happiness

with Redressers

• 2004 – To Each According...

with Carla Bozulich/Evangelista

• 2009 – Prince of Truth
• 2011 – In Animal Tongue
• 2014 – I'm Gonna Stop Killing

with Will Bernard Trio

• 2005 – Directions to My House

with Fever Pitch

• 2005 – Just Drums 2 Project

with Sean Hayes

• 2006 – Big Black Hole and the Little Baby Star

with Todd Sickafoose

• 2006 – Blood Orange

with Ben Goldberg Quintet

• 2006 – The Door, the Hat, the Chair, the Fact

with 7 Year Rabbit Cycle

• 2006 – Ache Horns

with Fred Frith, Darren Johnston, Devin Hoff and Larry Ochs

• 2007 – Reason to Move

with Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog

• 2008 – Party Intellectuals
• 2013 – Your Turn

with Leonid Fedorov, Vladimir Volkov, John Medeski, Marc Ribot

• 2010 – RazinRimILev

External links

• Ches Smith homepage
• Ches Smith on DAZ.com
• Ches Smith at AllMusic
• Picture gallary at downtownmusic.net