Art Ensemble of Chicago

Art Ensemble of Chicago
U.S. jazz ensemble.

The group evolved from the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), an experimental collective. Saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Malachi Favors, and drummer Don Moye formed the group in 1969, combining freely changing tempos, dynamics, and textures with an often comic theatricality of presentation. Their diversity of inspiration is expressed by their motto, "Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future."

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American jazz group
      American jazz group, innovators of sound, structure, and form in free jazz. They embraced a diversity of African and African American styles and sources in their creation of what they preferred to callGreat Black Music.”

      In 1966 composer-woodwind player Roscoe Mitchell (b. August 3, 1940, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) began forming small Chicago jazz units that he calledart ensembles,” which included bassist Malachi Favors (b. August 22, 1937, Chicagod. January 30, 2004, Chicago) and trumpeter Lester Bowie (b. October 11, 1941, Frederick, Maryland, U.S.). Often they were joined by composer-woodwind player Joseph Jarman (b. September 14, 1937, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S.), who became a permanent member of the Art Ensemble in 1968, turning it into a cooperative quartet. Their international fame began in 196971, when they recorded and toured prolifically in Europe and added a percussionist, Don Moye (b. May 23, 1946, Rochester, New York, U.S.). Subsequently they toured almost annually as a quintet in Europe, Japan, and the United States.

      At a time when the dominant trend in free jazz was intense, loud, very fast music, the Art Ensemble by contrast began featuring group and solo improvising in a wide range of freely changing tempos, dynamics, and textures. Its members played many instruments; their virtuosity included mastery of their instruments' overtone and multiphonics ranges, and Bowie became especially noted for his expressive concepts. They all played percussion instruments, including bells, gourds, and gongs, and the addition of Moye broadened their use of exotic percussion. While the Art Ensemble incorporated traditional jazz, classical, and popular works, music composed by its members was the source of its improvising in recordings such as A Jackson in Your House (1969), People in Sorrow (1969), and Urban Bushmen (1980).

      The five musicians also pursued independent careers; Bowie, for example, was a featured soloist with his Brass Fantasy band and the New York Organ Ensemble, and Mitchell composed extended works such as Nonaah (197677) and The Maze (1978).

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