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{{Short description|American jazz trumpeter}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
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| birth_name = Dallas Elmer Chambers
| alias = Frog, Muffle Jaws Chambers
| birth_date = 1897
| birth_place = [[Bayonne, New Jersey]], United States
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| death_date = {{death year and age|1952|1897}}
| death_place = [[Jersey City, New Jersey]], United States
| genre = [[Jazz]]
| occupation = Trumpeter
| instrument = [[Trumpet]]
| years_active = Late 1910s – 1930s
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| associated_acts = [[Sam Wooding]], [[Fletcher Henderson]], [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Ellsworth Reynolds]], [[Billy Fowler]], [[Russell Wooding]]
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'''Dallas Elmer Chambers''', also called '''Frog''' and '''Muffle Jaws Chambers''' (1897, [[Bayonne, New Jersey]] - ca. 1952, [[Jersey City, New Jersey]]) was an American [[jazz]] trumpeter.

Chambers played in [[marching band]]s while serving in [[World War I]], where he met bandleader [[Sam Wooding]]. He played with Wooding in [[Atlantic City]], [[Detroit]], and [[New York City]], but left his service before Wooding's tours abroad. In 1923 he began playing with [[Fletcher Henderson]] in both large and small ensembles, and played on recordings behind the [[blues]] singers [[Alberta Hunter]], [[Rosa Henderson]], [[Clara Smith]], and [[Ida Cox]]. He played with [[Louis Armstrong]], and recorded with him on sessions for [[Decca Records|Decca]], [[Verve Records|Verve]], and [[Paramount Records|Paramount]]. While with Armstrong he played alongside [[Coleman Hawkins]], [[Don Redman]], [[Buster Bailey]], and [[Joe Smith (musician)|Joe Smith]].

Chambers left Henderson in 1926 and played subsequently in the bands of [[Ellsworth Reynolds]] (1926), [[Billy Fowler]] (1926–27), and [[Russell Wooding]] (1930). He played in pit orchestras, in touring revues, and with [[Fats Waller]], [[Sidney Bechet]], and [[June Cole]] before going into semi-retirement in the 1930s.

==References==
*[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p149530/biography|pure_url=yes}} Elmer Chambers] at [[Allmusic]]
*Howard Rye, "Elmer Chambers". ''[[The New Grove|Grove Jazz]]'' online.

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