Art Ensemble of Chicago / discography
This discography is an overview of the records published by the Art Ensemble of Chicago . It includes the albums under your own name (Section 1) , the participation in other recordings (Section 2) and compilations (Section 3).
Recordings under your own name
This section lists the LPs and CDs published by the Art Ensemble chronologically according to the date they were recorded (other sorting, e.g. by year of release or label, can be created by clicking on the respective "tab").
| album | Label | Year of admission | Year of publication | Cast, Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lester Bowie / Art Ensemble | Nessa | 1967 | 1993 | Lester Bowie (with Roscoe Mitchell , Joseph Jarman , Malachi Favors ) |
| Early combinations | Nessa | 1967 | 1993 | Art Ensemble: Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors, Charles Clark , Thurman Barker |
| People in Sorrow | Nessa / Pathé | 1969 | 1969 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors |
| A Jackson in Your House | BYG Actuel / Metronome | 1969 | 1969 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors |
| The Spiritual | RCA / Freedom | 1969 | 1969 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors |
| Tutankhamun | RCA / Freedom / Intercord | 1969 | 1974 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors |
| Great Black Music / Message to Our Folks | BYG | 1969 | 1969 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors |
| Reese and the Smooth One | BYG | 1969 | 1969 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors |
| Eda Wobu | JMY | 1969 | 1981 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors ( extortion according to discogs ) |
| Live in Paris | BYG | 1969 | 1975 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors with Fontella Bass (initially in two parts, since 1980 as a double album with Affinity / Charly) |
| Certain blacks | America / Inner City | 1970 | 1970 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Chicago Beau , Edward Mitchell, Jr., Julio Finn , Malachi Favors Maghostut, William A. Howell |
| go home | Galloway | 1970 | 1970 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors and on a cover with Ivan Jullien , Bernard Vitet , Ambrose Jackson , Raymond Katarzynski , Jean-Louis Chautemps , Alain Matot, D. Ventosa, Kenneth Terroade |
| Chi Congo | Carson / Decca | 1970 | 1972 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Phase One | America / Prestige | 1970 | 1971 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Don Moye |
| Les Stances à Sophie | Pathé / Nessa | 1970 | 1970 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Don Moye, with Fontella Bass |
| Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass | America | 1970 | 1971 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye and Fontella Bass |
| Live Part 2 | BYG | 1970 | 1975 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Live at Mandel Hall | Trio / Delmark | 1972 | 1974 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors, Don Moye |
| Bap-Tizum | Atlantic | 1972 | 1973 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Fanfare for the Warriors | Atlantic | 1973 | 1974 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Muhal Richard Abrams , Malachi Favors, Don Moye |
| Kabalaba | AECO | 1974 | 1978 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye, live at the Montreux Jazz Festival |
| Nice guys | ECM records | 1978 | 1979 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Full force | ECM | 1980 | 1980 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Urban Bushmen | ECM | 1980 | 1982 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye (Live at Amerika-Haus Munich) |
| Among the People | practice | 1980 | 1981 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| The Third Decade | ECM | 1984 | 1985 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Live in Japan | DIW | 1984 | 1985 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye (live at Kanihoken Hall, Gotanda, Tokyo; since 1988 also as a double album The Complete Live In Japan ) |
| Complete Live in Japan '84 | DIW Records | 1984 | 1988 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Naked | DIW | 1985-1986 | 1986 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Ancient to the Future: Dreaming of the Masters Series Vol.1 | DIW | 1987 | 1987 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye and Bahnamous Bowie |
| The Alternate Express | DIW | 1989 | 1989 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Live in Berlin | West wind | 1989 | 1998 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Famoudou Don Moye, Malachi Favors Maghostut (live recording from the radio of the GDR , presumably robbery, since wrong title information) |
| Art Ensemble of Soweto | DIW | 1990 | 1990 | Art Ensemble of Chicago with Amabutho: Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye, Amabutho (South African vocal quintet) |
| Dreaming of the Masters Suite | DIW | 1990 | 1991 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Live at the Tokyo Music Joy '90 | DIW | 1990 | 1990 | Art Ensemble of Chicago (Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye) & Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy (sometimes the groups play separately, sometimes together) |
| Art Ensemble Of Soweto: America - South Africa | DIW | 1990 | 1991 | Art Ensemble of Chicago with Amabutho: Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye, Amabutho (South African male choir) |
| Thelonious Sphere Monk (Dreaming of the Masters Vol. 2) | DIW / Columbia | 1991 | Art Ensemble of Chicago with Cecil Taylor | |
| Fundamental Destiny | AECO | 1991 | 2007 | Art Ensemble of Chicago with Don Pullen; live at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival |
| Salutes the Chicago Blues Tradition | AECO | 1993 | 1993 | Lester Bowie, Frank Lacy , Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, James Carter , Chicago Beau, Amina Claudine Myers , Herb Walker , Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye (live in Geneva) |
| Coming Home Jamaica | Birdology / Warner, Atlantic | 1995-1996 | 1998 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Malachi Favors Maghostut |
| Zero Sun no Point (Dedicated to Mynona & Sun Ra) | Leo Records | 1996 | 2001 | Hartmut Geerken & The Art Ensemble Of Chicago (Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Malachi Favors Maghostut) |
| Urban Magic | AECO / Musica Jazz | 1997 | 2003 | Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Malachi Favors Maghostut |
| Tribute to Lester | ECM | 2001 | 2003 | Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Malachi Favors Maghostut |
| Peace Be unto You | AECO | 2002 | 2008 | Art Ensemble of Chicago with Special Guest Fred Anderson : Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Fred Anderson (live in Seattle) |
| Reunion: Live in Roma | Il Manifesto | 2003 | 2003 | Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye, Baba Sissoko |
| The meeting | Pi recordings | 2003 | 2003 | Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Sirius Calling | Pi recordings | 2003 | 2004 | Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Famoudou Don Moye |
| Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium | Pi recordings | 2004 | 2006 | with Corey Wilkes , Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Jaribu Shahid , Famoudou Don Moye |
| We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration | Pi recordings | 2018 | 2019 | with Roscoe Mitchell, Famoudou Don Moye, Nicole Mitchell , Tomeka Reid , Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa) , Christina Wheeler, Silvia Bolognesi, Junius Paul , Jean Cook, Rodolfo Cordova-Lebron, Hugh Ragin , Fred Berry, Edward Yoon Kwon, Jaribu Shahid , Dudù Kouaté, Enoch Williamson, Titos Sompa, Stephen Rush (Moor Mother, Rodolfo Cordova-Lebron and Dudù Kouaté only on disc 1) |
Recordings in which the Art Ensemble was involved
| album | Artist | Label | Year of admission | Year of publication | Cast, Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comme à la radio | Brigitte Fontaine , Areski avec Art Ensemble of Chicago | Saravah | 1969 | 1969 | |
| Je suis un sauvage | Alfred Panou | Saravah | 1969 | 1970 | Alfred Panou with Art Ensemble of Chicago (Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors; single) |
| Gittin 'to Know Y'All | Lester Bowie & Baden-Baden Free Jazz Orchestra | MPS | 1969 | 1970 | SWR New Jazz Meeting , Baden-Baden with (in different constellations) Lester Bowie, Kenny Wheeler , Hugh Steinmetz , Eje Thelin , Albert Mangelsdorff , Roscoe Mitchell, John Surman , Joseph Jarman, Willem Breuker , Bernt Rosengren , Alan Skidmore , Gerd Dudek , Heinz Sauer , Claude Delcloo , Terje Rypdal , Dave Burrell , Leo Cuypers , Palle Danielsson , Barre Phillips , Arjen Gorter , Steve McCall , Tony Oxley (dr, perc), Karin Krog (The musicians of the ensemble with the title track that fills more than one record page ; with The Baden-Baden Free Jazz Orchestra grouped around the Art Ensemble , only Jarman in another five-minute piece with an octet around Terje Rypdal) |
| Born Free: The 12th German Jazz Festival | Various artist | Scout | 1970 | 1970 | (in the original edition with a 10 'excerpt, in the CD box on 35') with the European Free Jazz Orchestra grouped around the Art Ensemble (Lester Bowie, Michael Sell , Manfred Schoof , Frederic Rabold , Herbert Joos , Paul Rutherford , Albert Mangelsdorff, Günter Christmann , Gunter Hampel , Joachim Kühn , Dieter Scherf , Michael Thielpape , Joseph Jarman, Alfred Harth , Heinz Sauer, Gerd Dudek, Axel Hennies , Roscoe Mitchell, Gerhard König, Claus Bühler, Peter Stock, Malachi Favors, Rainer Grimm , Karin Krog, Jeanne Lee ) |
| Seasons | Alan Silva and The Celestrial Communication Orchestra | BYG | 1970 | BYG | with Alan Shorter , Lester Bowie, Bernard Vitet , Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Lacy , Robin Kenyatta , Michel Portal , Ronnie Beer , Dave Burrell , Bobby Few , Joachim Kühn , Dieter Gewissler , Jouck Minor , Kent Carter , Irene Aebi , Malachi Favors Maghostut, Beb Guérin , Famoudou Don Moye, Jerome Cooper , Oliver Johnson (although the musicians of the Art Ensemble at the time were involved, there is no recognizable performance by this collective) |
Compilations
- The Paris Session (Arista / Freedom 1975, includes the albums Tutankhamun and The Spiritual )
- 1969-1970 ( EMI France 1990, includes the albums People in Sorrow and Les Stances à Sophie )
- Selected Recordings (ECM 2002; two of the eight tracks are from the ECM albums Lester Bowie: The Great Pretender and Roscoe Mitchell & the Note Factory: Nine to Get Ready )
- The Art Ensemble (Nessa 1993, 5-CD box with partly first published recordings from 1967-68)
- The Art Ensemble of Chicago & Associated Ensembles (ECM 2018, 21-CD box with already released recordings from 1978-2015, also by other formations by Lester Bowie and Roscoe Mitchell as well as by Wadada Leo Smith , Evan Parker and Jack DeJohnette + Book with 300 pages)
Web links
- Art Ensemble of Chicago at Discogs (English)
- Discography
- Discography (archived, formerly on geocities)
literature
- Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography. Volume 1 (A - Bankhead) Chillwack 1992; ISBN 1-881993-00-0 .
- Paul Steinbeck : Message to Our Folks: The Art Ensemble of Chicago Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016; ISBN 978-022637-59-60 .