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Art Ensemble of Chicago: Kabalaba
by Rex Butters
With the recent passings of founding members Lester Bowie and Malachi Favors Maghostut, Art Ensemble of Chicago's reissues take on new resonance. With 1974's Kabalaba , the Art Ensemble performs with Muhal Richard Abrams at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival before an apparently appreciative and enthusiastic audience. With the elder musician present, the Art Ensemble more ...
Tribute to Lester
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Sangredi (7:43) / Suite for Lester (5:22) / Zero-Alternate Line (9:16) / Tutankamen (8:10) / As Clear
as the Sun (12:41) / He Speaks to Me Often in Dreams (13:52).
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Tribute to Lester
by AAJ Staff
It's ironic that the longstanding Art Ensemble of Chicago, reduced here to a trio by the passing of trumpeter Lester Bowie, can have such an expansive sound. It's not just that these musicians work with several instruments each, or that these pieces span the range from meditative music to swing to free bop and the wild ...
A Fireside Chat With The Art Ensemble Of Chicago
by AAJ Staff
I once read how Sam Rivers heard Billie Holiday and, listening to the anguish in her voice, wept. Jazz can be just that profound because it is history. But along with history comes the inevitable politics and prejudices. Jazz is not beyond such human frailties, but it can be. As exemplified by the Art Ensemble of ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: After Lester Bowie
by Clifford Allen
After Lester Bowie, renowned trumpeter and regular Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC) member (daresay frontman) passed away in 1999, there was some question as to what the fate of the group would be. Of course, many lesser groups have folded with fewer catalysts than the death of a major contributor. But continue the group did, as ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Meeting
by Dan McClenaghan
The average jazz listener's evolution into jazz-fan-dom might start in New York with Charlie Parker and Ellington, then fly across country to Los Angeles for Birth of the Cool and Miles Davis and Gerry Mulligan, sticking with the major label offerings based on the two coasts. Chicago (or Madison, Wisconsin today) can slip under the radar ...
Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Meeting
by Mark Corroto
We speak of the Art Ensemble of Chicago circa 2003 as being in a post-Lester Bowie era. The group's mighty founder and trumpeter passed away in 1999. Meanwhile, this recording and the trio session Tribute To Lester (ECM 2003) have been the only AEC recordings made in this new era. But you may ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Tribute to Lester
by Frank Rubolino
It seems like only yesterday when the groundbreaking Art Ensemble of Chicago burst onto the scene as the second wave of free improvisers carrying the torch lighted by Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, and others. Their music had infectious qualities that made it impossible to typecast and impossible to ignore. Of course, it wasn’t yesterday but the ...
Rarum: Selected Recordings of the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Charlie M ('80); Magg Zelma ('80); Rios Negroes ('81); Folkus ('78); Nine
to Get Ready ('97); Prayer for Jimbo Kwesi ('84); Odwalla/Theme ('80);
Nice Guys ('78).
