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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.
Jan 27, 2023 · A live set celebrating the group’s 50th anniversary loops in a 20-piece orchestra, rousing poetry and new improvisers among the hardcore veterans.
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 · Beginning in the mid-1960s, the Art Ensemble of Chicago was one of the premier free jazz ensembles to emerge from the crucible of Chicago’s improvised music scene. Their fusion of various jazz and pre-jazz traditions – minstrel fare, ragtime, swing – with African and European elements, theater, and far-reaching improvisation changed the ...
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.’
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 · A veteran of Chicago’s seminal (but unrecorded) Experimental Band, Mitchell assembled his Art Ensemble in 1966 as a sextet that included Favors (another Experimental Band alumnus) and recent St. Louis transplant Bowie.
