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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 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.
May 1, 2019 · The Art Ensemble of Chicago is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and last Friday it released “We Are on the Edge,” a two-disc collection of compositions new and old, including...
Aug 18, 2015 · Learn about the history and legacy of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, one of the premier free jazz ensembles to emerge from the Chicago scene. Discover their fusion of various jazz and pre-jazz traditions with African and European elements, theater, and improvisation in this list of ten essential albums.
Art Ensemble of Chicago, 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 call ‘Great Black Music.’
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The Art Ensemble of Chicago. A groundbreaking avant-garde jazz group that brought invention and open space to the realm of free jazz. Read Full Biography.
Oct 6, 2017 · By 1970, the Art Ensemble of Chicago — a willfully eclectic, wildly experimental collective originally led by saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell — was already a sensation of sorts in Paris.
Apr 24, 2019 · Art Ensemble members increasingly focused on composition and collective improvisation rather than solos, with influences anywhere and everywhere—from Chicago’s rich jazz history to the European classical music Mitchell studied.
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