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Only two of us have left... but 'We Are On The Edge'. New album from Art Ensemble Of Chicago - A 50th Anniversary Celebration.
Roscoe Mitchell and Famoudou Don Moye - last two originals members of this famous group together with a new fresh faces of the band recorded fantastic and uncompromising album celebrating 50th Anniversary. Album is dedicated to Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman and Malachi Favors.

The Art Ensemble of Chicago has been at the forefront of creative improvised music since 1969, and has long served as the flagship ensemble of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), the august Chicago-based organization that also fostered the careers of members such as Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, and Wadada Leo Smith, among many others. The greatness of the Art Ensemble has always been the shared commitment of its original members – Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors, and Famoudou Don Moye – to the total realm of African diasporic music: what they have long-termed “Great Black Music—Ancient to the Future.” Also important are the group’s disparate musical and artistic personalities, comprised of jazz, advanced compositional techniques, theatrical performance, poetry, Pan-African percussion, all tied together with improvisational flair and the exploration of pure sound.

Comprised of two discs: a meticulous studio session and the capture of a rousing live set at Edgefest in Ann Arbor, MI, We are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration is exactly that, a commemoration of a half-century of magical music making. Not content to rest on their laurels, surviving members Mitchell and Moye have recruited a diverse group of fifteen highly-individual talents who bring their own approaches to the Art Ensemble aesthetic. Together, these virtuoso musicians honor the group’s history and help advance the legacy of Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors, and the recently departed Joseph Jarman. With clear intent towards representation, the group’s engagement of musicians such as Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa), Christina Wheeler, Silvia Bolognesi and Jean Cook – women who are without peer as improvisers and performers – help bring a new perspective to the music. The sheer breadth of the ensemble’s collective expression is staggering, and it serves as a clarion declaration that Mitchell and Moye are intent on carrying forth the powerful ethos of the Art Ensemble forcefully into its sixth decade. As Moor Mother declares: “We are on the edge!”

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Playlist
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  • Marilyn Mazur
    b.1955
    percussion
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Marilyn Mazur "Space Entry Dance" Shamania (RareNoise) 0:17
  • Host talks 4:37

  • Art Ensemble Of Chicago
    band/orchestra
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Art Ensemble Of Chicago "Saturday Morning" We Are on the Edge (PI) 6:57
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago "Dreaming of the Master" Nice Guys (ECM) 11:26
  • Host talks 23:04

  • Echoes of Zoo
    band/orchestra
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Echoes of Zoo "Killer Whale Show" First Provocations -EP (Aubergine) 24:57

  • James Brandon Lewis
    b.1983
    saxophone, tenor
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">James Brandon Lewis "The Eleventh Hour" An Unruly Manifesto (Relative Pitch) 29:02

  • Michael Gregory Jackson
    b.1953
    guitar
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Michael Gregory Jackson Clarity Quartet "Spin (Dedicated to Baikida Carroll)" Whenufindituwillknow (Golden) 38:17
  • Sam Ospovat
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Sam Ospovat "Kim's Line" Ride Angles (Self-released) 42:14
  • Host talks 43:33

  • Itamar Borochov
    trumpet
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Itamar Borochov "Motherlands (feat. Innov Gnawa)" Blue Nights (LABORIE Jazz) 46:31
 
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Suite (Part 2) ...


  • Paolo Fresu
    b.1961
    trumpet
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(18, 101, 204); text-decoration: underline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;">Paolo Fresu,
    Richard Galliano
    b.1950
    accordion
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Richard Galliano,
    Jan Lundgren
    b.1966
    piano
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Jan Lundgren "Ronneby" Mare Nostrum III (ACT) 51:36
  • Bridges with
    Seamus Blake
    b.1970
    saxophone, tenor
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Seamus Blake "The Jupiter Line" Continuum (AMP) 55:08
  • Host talks 1:03:11
  • Andrea Manzoni
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Andrea Manzoni "You Can Call Your Therapist" He Knows Everything (Another Music) 1:05:35

  • Larry Grenadier
    b.1966
    bass
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Larry Grenadier "Pettiford" The Gleaners (ECM) 1:08:40

  • Ran Blake
    b.1935
    piano
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Ran Blake,
    Claire Ritter
    b.1952
    piano
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Claire Ritter "Waltzing the Splendor (Live)" Eclipse Orange (Zoning) 1:12:13

  • Vijay Iyer
    b.1971
    piano
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Vijay Iyer,
    Craig Taborn
    b.1970
    keyboard
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Craig Taborn "Clear Monolith" The Transitory Poems (ECM) 1:14:01
  • Host talks 1:24:40
  • Nathan-Paul & The Admirables "Catch Me If You Can" Catch Me If You Can -Single (Ropeadope) 1:27:17

  • Kendrick Scott
    b.1980
    drums
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Kendrick Scott Oracle "The Catalyst" A Wall Becomes a Bridge (Blue Note) 1:31:44

  • Jonathan Blake
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Jonathan Blake "West Berkley St." Trion (Giant Step Arts) 1:38:50

  • Chiara Izzi
    vocalist
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Chiara Izzi "James (feat.
    Gregoire Maret
    b.1975
    harmonica
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Gregoire Maret)" Across the Sea (Via Veneto Jazz / Jando) 1:46:14
 

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Suite (Part 3) ...

  • Host talks 1:49:27

  • Mats Eilertsen
    b.1975
    bass
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Mats Eilertsen "Then Comes the Night" And Then Comes the Night (ECM) 1:51:46
  • Beppe Scardino
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Beppe Scardino "One For KD" BS10 Live in Pisa (Auand) 1:56:45

  • Joe Martin
    b.1970
    bass, acoustic
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Joe Martin "5X3" Étoilée (Sunnyside) 2:03:27
  • Host talks 2:10:48

  • Jason Palmer
    b.1979
    trumpet
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Jason Palmer "Kalispel Bay (Live)" Rhyme and Reason (Giant Step Arts) 2:13
  • Host talks 2:30:14

  • Iro Haarla
    " data-original-title="" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(55, 135, 227); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer;">Iro Haarla "Ida Lupino" Around Again (TUM) 2:33:03
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Dee Dee Bridgewater will never stop fascinating me, never. She is an Artist who has all the features of the best jazz vocal - amazing feel, time, charisma, technique and fantastic voice - I love Dee Dee. Her musicians are always the highest class, the highest level and riding to the max. Generally, I do not listen to the vocal, but Dee Dee is much more than just jazz vocals. I will always listen with great and undisguised pleasure to what Dee Dee has to say. Dee Dee, it's much more than just music and jazz - Dee Dee is an Angel!

NPR's concerts are the best in music - acoustically clean, quiet and how true - and the truth of them is, among other things, that you could as well compare them to the conditions that most of us have at home. In short, you can probably say that this is the top end! Living energy - energy flowing from a living organism to a living organism - and absorbed by a living organism. Even the best speaker and electronics on earth can not replace something like a party below

 
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Jimmy Smith in his prime at his finest. Released in ‘65 & still sounds good today:
 

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Sunday May 5th ... superb weather supreme relaxation extreme peace ...

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At the appropriate volume, these guys are in the room with you....
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