Art Ensemble Of Chicago
USA
Formed: 1966
Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative
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 (52)
- Ornette Coleman (47)
- Anthony Braxton (39)
- Sun Ra (20)
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk (9)
- World Saxophone Quartet (8)
- Reflection (8)
- Frequency (6)
- Fred Anderson (4)
- Revolutionary Ensemble (1)
- Jacques Coursil (1)
Influenced by
- Duke Ellington (169)
- John Coltrane (110)
- Louis Armstrong (75)
- 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)
- Courtney Pine (1)
- Rova Saxophone Quartet (1)
Performed Songs By
- Keith Jarrett (99)
- Roscoe Mitchell (11)
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