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James Hawthorne (April 17, 1913 – April 8, 2004), also known as James Hawthorne Bey and Chief Bey, was an American jazz percussionist and vocalist, a visual artist and folklorist of African traditions. He was also ordained in Nigeria as a Priest.


Early life
Born James Hawthorne in Yemassee, South Carolina,. "Chief Bey, 91 Jazz Drummer." The New York Times, April 13, 2004. Retrieved October 28, 2016.Jenkins, Todd S. "Chief Bey: Master of African drums." www.jazzhouse.org. Retrieved October 28, 2016. Bey moved with his family to and then to Harlem, where he began playing drums and singing in church choirs. He also served in both the Army and Navy and during World War II, and believed to have another daughter in Germany. He attended school.


Later life and career
In the 1950s, Chief Bey performed in an international tour of Porgy and Bess along with his wife Louise Hawthorne, starring and . He also began a busy recording career, performing with flautist 's At the Village Gate (1961), 's The African Beat (1962), Ahmed Abdul-Malik's Sounds of Africa (New Jazz, 1961), as well as albums by , , Miriam Greaves and , among others.

He took his stage name after joining the Moorish Science Temple of America, a Muslim sect whose practitioners often add the suffix "Bey" to their names. Then he taught the , a West African gourd percussion instrument, at the Griot Institute at Intermediate School 246 in Brooklyn. He performed on Baba Olatunji albums as a vocalist and played African drums and Percussion, Agbé/large Shékéré, Agogo/Bells. As a drum maker, he invented the No Whole Tension Technique of roping skin onto drums.

He worked with , , , , , , Sonny Morgan, Mongo Santamaria, , .


Personal life and death
James Hawthorne died in his Brooklyn home of stomach cancer at the age of 90.Carlson, Russell. "Percussionist Chief Bey Dies." www.jazztimes.com, April 15, 2004. His first wife passed 3 years before him, Louise Hawthorne, soprano opera singer traveled the world together, while she sang operas like Aida and Madame Butterfly leaving their 3 children, David, Denise and Carolyn with just their father. His youngest daughter Carolyn who’s on his last CD followed him in death.

His common law wife Barbara Kenyatta (born Barbara Ann Coleman in Harlem on June 9, 1944), was a priestess of in the religion. She collapsed and died four days later.


Discography

As leader
  • Children of the House of God (Mapleshade, 1997)


As sideman
With
  • Orchestra, Duo & Septet (Chiaroscuro, 1977)
  • Dangerously Suite (Soul Note, 1981)
  • Nali Kola (Soul Note, 1989)
  • Bearer of the Holy Flame (Black Fire, 1994)
  • Bluiett's Barbeque Band (Mapleshade, 1996)
  • Live at Carlos 1 (Just a Memory, 1997)
  • Live at Carlos 1: Another Night (Just a Memory, 1997)
  • Live at Carlos 1: Last Night (Just a Memory, 1998)

With Babatunde Olatunji

  • Zungo! (Columbia, 1961)
  • High Life! (Columbia, 1963)
  • Drums! Drums! Drums! (Roulette, 1964)

With others

  • Ahmed Abdul-Malik, Sounds of Africa (New Jazz, 1962)
  • , Mysterious Instinct (Charlie Parker, 1962)
  • & , An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba (RCA Victor, 1965)
  • , The African Beat (Blue Note, 1962)
  • , African High Life (Blue Note, 1963)
  • , Herbie Mann at the Village Gate (Atlantic, 1962)
  • Herbie Mann, Herbie Mann Returns to the Village Gate (Atlantic, 1963)
  • , Makeba Sings! (RCA Victor, 1965)
  • , Lord Shango (Bryan, 1975)
  • , Thembi (ABC Impulse!, 1971)
  • Pharoah Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (Strata-East, 1973)
  • Warren Smith, Cats Are Stealing My $hit (Mapleshade, 1998)
  • , Themes for African Drums (RCA Victor, 1959)
  • , Khepera (Verve, 1998)
  • , Raisin (Columbia, 1973)
  • World Saxophone Quartet, Metamorphosis (Elektra Nonesuch, 1991)
  • World Saxophone Quartet, Selim Sivad. Tribute to Miles Davis with African Drums (Justin Time, 1998)

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