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词条 Art Ensemble of Chicago
释义

  1. History

  2. Discography

  3. Further reading

  4. Films

  5. References

  6. External links

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| origin = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
| genre = Avant-garde jazz, free jazz
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| label = BYG, Nessa, Delmark, ECM, AECO, Pi
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| current_members = * Roscoe Mitchell
  • Don Moye
  • Jaribu Shahid
  • Hugh Ragin
  • Tomeka Reid
  • Dudu Kouate

| past_members = * Lester Bowie
  • Malachi Favors
  • Joseph Jarman
  • Phillip Wilson
  • Corey Wilkes
  • Baba Sissoko
  • Ari Brown
  • Elliot Ngubone

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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.[1] 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 wear costumes and face paint while performing. These characteristics combine to make the ensemble's performances both aural and visual. While playing in Europe in 1969, five hundred instruments were used.[2]

History

Members of what was to become the Art Ensemble performed together under various band names in the mid-sixties, releasing their first album, Sound, as the Roscoe Mitchell Sextet in 1966. The Sextet included saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, trumpeter Lester Bowie, and bassist Malachi Favors. For the next year, they played as the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble. In 1967, they were joined by fellow AACM members Joseph Jarman (saxophone) and Phillip Wilson (drums) and recorded for Nessa Records.

All of the musicians were multi-instrumentalists. Jarman and Mitchell's primary instruments were alto and tenor saxophone, respectively, but they played other saxophones (from the small sopranino to the large bass saxophone), and the flute and clarinet. In addition to trumpet, Bowie played flugelhorn, cornet, shofar, and conch shells. Favors added touches of banjo and bass guitar. Most of them dabbled in piano, synthesizer, and other keyboards.

In 1967, Wilson left the group to join Paul Butterfield's band. The remaining group travelled to Paris,[3] where they became known as the Art Ensemble of Chicago. The impetus for the name change came from a French promoter who added "of Chicago" to their name for descriptive purposes, but the new name stuck because band members felt that it better reflected the cooperative nature of the group. In Paris, the ensemble was based at the Théâtre des Vieux Colombier [4] and they recorded for the Freedom and BYG labels. They also recorded Comme à la radio with Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Belkacem but without a drummer until percussionist Don Moye became a member of the group in 1970. During that year, they recorded the albums Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass and Les Stances a Sophie with singer Fontella Bass, who was Lester Bowie's wife. The latter was the soundtrack from the French movie of the same title.

Two years later, the group returned to the U.S. They came to prominence with two albums on Atlantic Records: Bap-Tizum and Fanfare for the Warriors. Members of the group decided to restrict their appearances together to allow each player to pursue other musical interests. The Art Ensemble released more than twenty studio albums and several live albums between 1972 and 2004.

In 1993, Jarman retired to concentrate on Zen and Aikido. Bowie died of liver cancer in 1999, and the group continued as a trio until 2003, when Jarman returned. In January 2004, Favors died during the recording of Sirius Calling. The group was joined in late 2004 by trumpeter Corey Wilkes and bassist Jaribu Shahid, who recorded the live album Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City (2006) on Pi Recordings.

Ensemble members embrace the performance art aspects of their concerts, believing that they allow the band to move beyond the limits of jazz. Their operating motto is "Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future", which allows them to explore a variety of musical styles and influences; the band's appearance on stage also reflects this motto. As Jarman describes it,

"So what we were doing with that face painting was representing everyone throughout the universe, and that was expressed in the music as well. That's why the music was so interesting. It wasn't limited to Western instruments, African instruments, or Asian instruments, or South American instruments, or anybody's instruments."[5]

Discography

TitleYearLabel
Sound - Roscoe Mitchell Sextet1966Delmark
Old/Quartet - Roscoe Mitchell1967Nessa
Numbers 1 & 2 - Lester Bowie1967Nessa
Early Combinations - Art Ensemble1967Nessa
Congliptious - Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble1968Nessa
A Jackson in Your House1969BYG Actuel
Tutankhamun1969Freedom
The Spiritual1969Freedom
People in Sorrow1969Nessa
Message to Our Folks1969BYG-Actuel
Reese and the Smooth Ones1969BYG-Actuel
Eda Wobu1969JMY
Comme à la radio1970Saravah
Certain Blacks1970America
Go Home1970Galloway
Chi-Congo1970Paula
Les Stances a Sophie1970Nessa
Live in Paris1970Freedom
Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass1970America
Phase One1971America
Live at Mandell Hall1972Delmark
Bap-Tizum1972Atlantic
Fanfare for the Warriors1973Atlantic
Kabalaba1974AECO
Nice Guys1978ECM
Live in Berlin1979West Wind
Full Force1980ECM
Urban Bushmen1980ECM
Among the People1980Praxis
The Complete Live in Japan1984DIW
The Third Decade1984ECM
Naked1986DIW
Ancient to the Future1987DIW
The Alternate Express1989DIW
Art Ensemble of Soweto1990DIW
America - South Africa1990DIW
Dreaming of the Masters Suite1990DIW
Dreaming of the Masters Series Vol. 2 with Cecil Taylor1990DIW
Live at the 6th Tokyo Music Joy1990DIW
Fundamental Destiny with Don Pullen1991AECO
Salutes the Chicago Blues Tradition1993AECO
Coming Home Jamaica1996Atlantic
Urban Magic1997Musica
Tribute to Lester2001ECM
Reunion2003Around jazz / Il Manifesto
The Meeting2003Pi
Sirius Calling2004Pi
Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City2006Pi

Further reading

  • Steinbeck, Paul. Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
  • Lewis, George. A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
  • Shipton, Alyn. A New History of Jazz. London: Continuum, 2001.

Films

  • 1982 - Live From the Jazz Showcase: The Art Ensemble of Chicago (directed by William J Mahin, the University of Illinois at Chicago). Filmed at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase in Chicago, November 1, 1981.

References

1. ^{{Cite book| last = Cook| first = Richard| author-link =| year = 2005| title = Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia| publisher = Penguin Books| location = London| isbn = 0-141-00646-3| pages = 21}}
2. ^{{cite book | author=Jost, Ekkehard | title=Free Jazz (Studies in Jazz Research 4) | publisher=Universal Edition | year=1975|pages=177}}
3. ^{{cite book | author=Wilmer, Valerie | title=As Serious As Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz | publisher=Quartet | year=1977|pages=122–123}}
4. ^{{cite book | author=Jost, Ekkehard | title=Free Jazz (Studies in Jazz Research 4) | publisher=Universal Edition | year=1975|pages=167}}
5. ^Joseph Jarman interview {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060320210852/http://www.furious.com/perfect/jarman.html |date=March 20, 2006 }}

External links

  • {{official website|http://www.artensembleofchicago.com|Art Ensemble of Chicago}} – official website
  • [https://www.discogs.com/artist/97538-The-Art-Ensemble-Of-Chicago Art Ensemble of Chicago] - Discography at Discogs
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20091028125007/http://geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Delta/8835/art.html Art Ensemble of Chicago] discography (archive), retrieved January 11, 2005
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20050207052241/http://aacmchicago.org/groups/AECO.html Art Ensemble of Chicago] biography on the AACM site, retrieved January 11, 2005
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago return to Mandel Hall after 32 years – report by Seth Sanders in the University of Chicago Chronicle, April 29, 2004, retrieved January 11, 2005
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060320210852/http://www.furious.com/perfect/jarman.html Joseph Jarman] interview at Furious, retrieved January 11, 2005
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070323225854/http://kairos.biz/j/artensembleofchicago.html Art Ensemble of Chicago] photos, live in Salzburg/Austria 2006
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago portraits by Dominik Huber at dominikphoto.com
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