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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 ...
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 ...