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The Art Ensemble of Chicago: We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
by Mark Corroto
Seventy plus recordings and fifty years since the inception of The Art Ensemble Of Chicago. I mean the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble, its original name. Born of Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the band sojourned to Paris and soon changed its name to The Art Ensemble Of Chicago to reflect the corroborative process of its members. With the move an enduring quintet was formed with Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors, and Joseph Jarman. ...
Continue ReadingLast Song for Valentine Part 2-4: New York is Full of Lonely People
by Jakob Baekgaard
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 It was late in the evening when Cory left the club. As always, he quickly became exhausted when he left the stage. It was not playing that was difficult. He was comfortable in his own skin on stage and often felt a real connection with the audience. It was a transient feeling and he could not catch everyone, but he played for someone and those who heard ...
Continue ReadingGrande Musica Nera - Storia dell'Art Ensemble of Chicago
by Angelo Leonardi
Grande Musica Nera --Storia dell'Art Ensemble of Chicago Paul Steinbeck 399 pagine ISBN: 978-88-229-0164-4 Quodlibet 2018 Pubblicato lo scorso anno negli Stati Uniti col titolo di Message to Our Folks questo è il primo studio organico sull'Art Ensemble of Chicago, scritto Paul Steinbeck, professore di musica alla Washington University di St.Louis. Con traduzione di Giuseppe Lucchesini, l'edizione italiana è curata da Claudio Sessa, noto critico e saggista, già direttore di Musica Jazz, che ...
Continue ReadingThe Art Ensemble of Chicago at the 2017 Time In Jazz Festival
by Roberto Cifarelli
The Art Ensemble of Chicago were, as expected, one of the main attractions at Time in Jazz, the Festival organized for the thirtieth consecutive year by Italian trumpet player Paolo Fresu in his native city of Berchidda, in Sardinia. The line-up of the AEoC, which played a fiery set, featured the founding members Roscoe Mitchell on reeds and Famoudou Don Moye on drums and percussions, as well as Hugh Ragin on trumpet and Junius Paul on bass who ...
Continue ReadingArt Ensemble Of Chicago: Les Stances A Sophie
by Marcus O'Dair
They formed, of course, in the American city that constitutes part of their band moniker. But this 1970 album by the Art Ensemble Of Chicago, re-released on Soul Jazz, was in fact recorded in Paris, the four main AEOC members having formed part of the late '60s exodus that also brought to France Archie Shepp, Don Cherry and Anthony Braxton.
The location is significant because Les Stances A Sophie--a soundtrack for a 1971 New Wave film of the same title, ...
Continue ReadingArt Ensemble of Chicago: Non-cognitive Aspects of The City
by AAJ Italy Staff
La creatività e la motivazione dell'AEOC ebbero un periodo di declino dapprima a seguito dell'abbandono da parte di Jarman, nel 1994, e poi della morte di Lester Bowie avvenuta alla fine del 1999. La scomparsa di Malachi Favors, nonostante che nel frattempo fosse rientrato Jarman, sembrava aver decretato la definitiva fine dello storico gruppo. Al contrario ha del miracoloso come in questi ultimi anni la formazione abbia saputo riprendere vigore, offrendo eccellenti performance concertistiche: ricompattatasi attorno ai superstiti Mitchell, Jarman ...
Continue ReadingArt Ensemble of Chicago: Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium
by Troy Collins
It seemed that the tireless Art Ensemble of Chicago might have reached its denouement with the passing of Malachi Favors in 2004. Coupled with Favors' demise, Lester Bowie's death in 1999, six years after Joseph Jarman first resigned, seemed prophetic. Undaunted, the remaining original members soldiered on, and for the first time in their history, they recruited replacements for their fallen comrades.
Trumpeter Corey Wilkes, a sanguine young Chicagoan with a tenacious spirit, takes up the challenge of ...
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