Art Ensemble of Chicago
13 articles
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Like Hi Man, I's Yo New Neighbour
Report and Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 11 January 1975
Yep, it's a tough town and the music fits like a glove. BRIAN CASE meets The Art Ensemble of Chicago on their home patch. ...
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, Michigan State News, 15 November 1977
Roscoe Mitchell returns ...
Lester Bowie: Gittin' to Know Y'all
Interview by Brian Case, Melody Maker, 24 February 1979
LESTER BOWIE plays trumpet the way Leo Watson scats. His music is a funfair hall of mirrors with as many straight lines as a switchback ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Brian Case, Melody Maker, 31 March 1979
PROBABLY THE only unanswered question by now for most of their followers on this side of The Big Moist, is how they look when they ...
The Art Ensemble of Chicago: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Brian Case, Melody Maker, 31 March 1979
PROBABLY THE only unanswered question by now for most of their followers on this side of The Big Moist, is how they look when they ...
The Art Ensemble of Chicago: Dressing Up To Play
Interview by Brian Case, Melody Maker, 30 August 1980
The Art Ensemble's percussionist, Famoudou Don Moye, levels, bevels and revels in costume. BRIAN CASE sits and watches ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 17 March 1982
IT MAY BE impossible for the outsider to decode the arcane rituals which accompany a performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and which the ...
Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Urban Bushmen (ECM)
Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 29 May 1982
BURNING BUSHMEN ...
Art Ensemble's Lester Bowie: Rubber-Legged Populist of the Avant-Garde
Interview by Don Snowden, LA Weekly, 12 April 1984
THE ART Ensemble of Chicago — Lester Bowie (trumpet), Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell (reeds), Malachi Favors Maghostut (bass) and Famoudou Don Moye (percussion) — ...
Manfred Eicher: Elegant, Crystalline, Mysterious or Enervated, Chilly, Morose?
Interview by Richard Cook, The Wire, January 1988
In this rare interview, Europe's leading label boss explains exactly what ECM stands for. ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Ancient to the Future
Profile by John Sinclair, Detroit Metro Times, October 1988
A SMALL ARMY of instruments is what you see first – an entire stage full of saxophones, drums, gongs, percussion implements of every description, bicycle ...
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 March 1990
"OUR MUSIC IS primarily intended to stimulate thought, to get people to make new rationales," said Art Ensemble of Chicago trumpeter Lester Bowie. "We're expanding ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
Roscoe Mitchell, b. 3 August 1940, Chicago, Illinois, USA; Joseph Jarman, b. 14 September 1937, Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Lester Bowie, b. 11 October 1941, Frederick, ...
see also Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy
see also Roscoe Mitchell
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