Art Ensemble Of Chicago
USA
Formed: 1966
Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative
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Originally comprised of saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Malachi Favors, and later, drummer Famoudou Don Moye, the Art Ensemble of Chicago enjoyed a critical reputation as the finest and most influential avant-garde jazz ensemble of the 1970s and '80s. Whether or not that reputation was wholly deserved is, in retrospect, subject to debate -- the World Saxophone Quartet and the Cecil Taylor Unit may well have been more influential. Nevertheless, the Art Ensemble was unquestionably a groundbreaking b...
See also
- Roscoe Mitchell (11)
- Lester Bowie (1)
- Fontella Bass (0)
Similar artists
- Cecil Taylor (65)
- Air (51)
- Ornette Coleman (47)
- Anthony Braxton (39)
- Sun Ra (20)
- Reflection (8)
- World Saxophone Quartet (8)
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk (8)
- Frequency (5)
- Fred Anderson (4)
- Jacques Coursil (1)
- Revolutionary Ensemble (1)
Influenced by
- Duke Ellington (169)
- John Coltrane (110)
- Louis Armstrong (74)
- Cecil Taylor (65)
- Sonny Rollins (51)
- Ornette Coleman (47)
- Sun Ra (20)
- Art Blakey (15)
- Andrew Hill (11)
- Albert Ayler (10)
- Muhal Richard Abrams (7)
Followers
- William Parker (35)
- Hamid Drake (24)
- the Pharaohs (2)
- Rova Saxophone Quartet (1)
- Courtney Pine (1)
Performed Songs By
- Keith Jarrett (98)
- Roscoe Mitchell (11)
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