Results for "AACM"

Charlie Haden: Anatomy of a Jazz Classic

by John Ephland
August 31, 2026

It was a phoner from the suburban Chicago offices of DownBeat to bassist Charlie Haden in L.A. Our talk, which was held on September 15, 1991, was periodically interrupted by his needing to say, “Hold on one second." The occasion? The 30th anniversary of the release of saxophonist Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking LP Free Jazz: A Collective ...

Shanta Nurullah

Born: June 16, 1950

Shanta first heard the sitar while on a 1969 study abroad stay in Poona, India. She found a teacher, Bhaskar Chandavakar, and received beginning instruction for five months. After college, she acted in Chicago's Kuumba Workshop had a few bass lessons from Pete Cosey, who sent her to Kelan Phil Cohran, who encouraged her to explore the sitar in her own special way. After several years in Cohran's Black Music Workshop, Shanta formed her first band, Insight. Players with this group included Ari Brown, Malachi Favors, Babu Atiba, Bernice Brooks, Alan Burroughs, Randy Ford, Elihoenai and Yosef Ben Israel. Her next group, co-founded with vocalist Rita Warford, was the all women's emsemble Sojourner, with members from Chicago and Detroit (Chavunduka Sevanhu, Sherri Weathersby, Kafi Patrice Nassoma, Elreta Dodds, Gayelynn McKinney, Ahsia Hill). 

Leonard E. Jones: Taking Control Of Destiny

by Barbara Ina Frenz
January 6, 2023

Bassist and photographer Leonard E. Jones laid the foundation of his musical and artistic ideas as an original member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. The AACM ranks as the most well-known and influential organization of the 1960s under African American leadership that created American experimental music through challenging “racialized limitations on venues ...

Eunhye Jeong

Born: July 7, 1986

Eunhye Jeong is a pianist and composer with a critical mind that keeps expanding her musical world with diligent research. Recently, she released her fourthalbum [The Colliding Beings, Chi-Da] — a recording of her Seoul concert with Pansori master Il-dong Bae, which is selected as one of the Best Album of 2020 by Sequenza 21 magazine. And she soon released another record [Abyss] under Mung Music label in the same year. She currently performs two major projects: Chi-Da and TVV Quartet, as well as a new work called KM-53 with visuals and electronics.

She has performed with legendary Wadada Leo Smith, a multiple awards-winner including UCLA medal of 2020, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and an innovative composer/trumpeter, as a pianist of NDA ensemble which performed one of ECM's most celebrated albums at the third CREATE Festival. She also performed duo with highly acclaimed cellist/ improviser/composer Okkyung Lee. She also performed in renowned places such as Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), UN Headquarter (NY), colleges such as Harvard University, Berklee College of Music, Boston College, etc.

Burton Greene: From Bomb To Balm

by Barbara Ina Frenz
December 18, 2020

Chicago-born pianist Narada Burton Greene (b.1937) can be called a veteran of the 1960s jazz avant-garde—the starting point of his universal musical life. In 1962, he moved to New York and founded, together with bassist Alan Silva, the Free Form Improvisational Ensemble, which played improvised music without preconceived compositional elements. In 1965, he became a member ...

Paul Plimley, Evan Parker & Denis Fournier

by Maurice Hogue
August 21, 2019

This show marks the one-year anniversary of publishing One Man's Jazz on All About Jazz's radio section, and we're taking a decided dip into the “deep end" of the improvisation pool. There's lots of avant-garde, experimental, free form, free improv on the bill. Is it “noise," is it the future? That's for the listener to decide, ...

Martin Archer: Another Fantastic Individual

by Matt Parker
May 9, 2019

This album is perhaps slightly less immediate than some of Martin Archer's other recent releases, such as the eponymous debut album of the Krautrock-esque trio Das Rad, but no less essential and, perhaps, in a sense, more impressive given that it was performed in its entirety by Archer alone. Another Fantastic Individual is a ...

Meet Jacob Cartwright

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
August 6, 2018

Our August Super Fan is a visual artist with a special affinity for improvisational music, which has spilled over into his jazz-themed painting series. In jazz, as in art, Jacob Cartwright values the past while embracing the forward momentum of the new. Plus he's really “down with the jazz cats"--read on to see what we mean! ...

Martin Archer: Story Tellers

by Duncan Heining
August 26, 2017

We used to call records like this 'concept albums.' The whole idea soon became a term of derision thanks to Rick Wakeman and others. Nevertheless, let's stick with it for a moment. Martin Archer's Story Tellers is constructed as a series of interlocking vignettes, linked both by certain recurring themes, narrative threads and the attribution of ...

AACM - The Association of the Advancement of Creative Music

by Hrayr Attarian
October 26, 2015

The Association of the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) was created 50 years ago in Chicago to give voice to adventurous African American musicians and to express the political turmoil of the era. As this is the anniversary year of this revolutionary collective here are ten essential classic AACM recordings that belong in any collection, regardless ...