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==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 [[Leontyne Price]] and [[Cab Calloway]]. He also began a busy recording career, performing with flautist [[Herbie Mann]]'s ''At the Village Gate'' (1961), [[Art Blakey]]'s ''The African Beat'' (1962), [[Ahmed Abdul-Malik]]'s ''[[Sounds of Africa]]'' (New Jazz, 1961), as well as albums by [[Harry Belafonte]], [[Miriam Makeba]], Miriam Greaves and [[Pharoah Sanders]], 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 [[shekere|Shékéré]], a West African gourd percussion instrument, at the Griot Institute at Intermediate School 246 in Brooklyn.<ref name=chief/>  He performed on [[Babatunde Olatunji|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 [[Count Basie]], [[Duke Ellington]], [[Nina Simone]], [[Geoffrey Holder]], [[Randy Weston]], [[Reggie Workman]], Sonny Morgan, [[Mongo Santamaría|Mongo Santamaria]], [[Eddie Palmieri]], [[John Coltrane]].