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Art Ensemble of Chicago
Formed in 1965
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The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late 1960s. The ensemble integrates many jazz styles and plays many instruments, including "little instruments": bells, bicycle horns, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and various forms of percussion. The musicians would wear costumes and face paint while performing. These characteristics combined to make the ensemble's performances both aural and visual. While playing in Europe in 1969, five hundred instruments were used.
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L’Art Ensemble of Chicago est un groupe américain de free jazz formé à la fin des années 1960 autour de Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors et Joseph Jarman, rejoint en 1970 par le batteur Don Moye. Issu de l’Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), l’ensemble s’est distingué par son instrumentation extrêmement variée, son esthétique scénique mêlant costumes et peintures rituelles, et sa conception musicale qu’il qualifie de Great Black Music. Alliant racines africaines, héritage du jazz, expérimentations sonores et performances théâtralisées, il s’impose comme l’un des collectifs majeurs de l’avant-garde jazz. Malgré le déclin du free jazz et la disparition progressive de ses membres, le groupe demeure une référence incontournable dans l’histoire du jazz contemporain.
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Discography
Albums
- 1969 A Jackson in Your House
- 1969 Message to Our Folks
- 1969 People in Sorrow
- 1969 Reese and the Smooth Ones
- 1970 Certain Blacks
- 1970 Go Home
- 1971 Art Ensemble of Chicago With Fontella Bass
- 1971 Phase One
- 1972 Chi-Congo
- 1972 The Spiritual
- 1974 Fanfare for the Warriors
- 1974 Tutankhamun
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- 1979 Nice Guys
- 1980 Full Force
- 1985 The Third Decade
- 1986 Naked
- 1987 Ancient to the Future: Dreaming of the Masters Series, Vol. 1
- 1989 The Alternate Express
- 1990 Art Ensemble of Soweto
- 1991 Art Ensemble of Soweto: America - South Africa
- 1991 Dreaming of the Masters Suite
- 1991 Dreaming of the Masters, Volume 2: Thelonious Sphere Monk
- 1991 Eda Wobu
- 1998 Coming Home Jamaïca
- 2001 Zero Sun No Point (Dedicated to Mynona & Sun Ra)
- 2003 The Meeting
- 2003 Tribute to Lester
- 2004 Sirius Calling
- 2012 Early Combinations
- 2021 The Spiritual + Tutankhamun
