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Wednesday, January 26, 2022
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Live Hamburg, Germany 1987
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Live at Fabrik
July 14, 1987
July 14, 1987
Hamburg, Germany
FM source @192
The AEC Is an avant-garde jazz
ensemble that grew out of Chicago in the late 1960s. Art ensemble is
notable for its integration of musical styles that span jazzes entire
history and further multi-instrumentalism. They have used what they term
little instruments from bicycle horns, bells, birthday party
noisemakers, wind chimes, and a vast array of percussion instruments.
They also include costumes and face paint in performance. All these
characteristics combine to make the ensemble's performances a visual
spectacle along with an auditory one... more here
Assembling in 1968, the Art Ensemble of Chicago came out of the fertile Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM), a non-profit group that nurtured the avant garde roots of the Chicago jazz scene. Dedicated to fusing jazz with other musical traditions from America, Europe, Africa and Asia, the group's five members - saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Malachi Favors and drummer Don Moye - have remained constant since 1971.
This particular live concert captures the period when the group signed with the Japanese label, Disk Union in the mid-‘80s. The concert coincided with the release of Ancient to the Future, Dreaming of the Masters Vol I (1987), a series of homages that the group made with their own influences. As Jarman noted: "It's meaningless to repeat what one of the masters has done, note for note. We are not as good as the master was, simply by repeating his notes. We need to play our own music and incorporate the master's ideas, but show they're an influence, not an affliction." Here, they perform a treatment of Albert Ayler's Ghosts but the raw desperate energy is rendered with a sweeter, fuller sense of melody without compromising Ayler's passion. They end with Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry where Lester Bowie's ethereal trumpet keeps understating the melody thus allowing your imagination to fill in the gaps. Sound quality is good. - Philip Cheah
The band are:
Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors & Don Moye.
Setlist:
CD1
1-Untitled
2-Ghosts
CD2
3-Untitled
4-Untitled
5-No Woman No cry
6-Untitled
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