Black Artists Group

The Black Artists Group was an artists association in the field of avant-garde jazz , which was founded in 1968 in St. Louis .

history

The association has seen itself as a multidisciplinary artist collective since it was founded. It was founded to improve the situation of avant-garde Afro-American music in St. Louis and existed between 1968 and 1972.

Founding members were the drummers Philip Wilson , Charles Bobo Shaw , and Abdullah Yakub . Well-known musicians from this circle were the saxophonists Julius Hemphill , Oliver Lake , JD Parran , Hamiet Bluiett and Luther Thomas , the trumpeters Baikida Carroll , Rasul Siddik and Floyd LeFlore ; trombonist Joseph Bowie , drummer Bensid Thigpen, and bassist Arzinia Richardson . Other members of the group were the poets Ajule (Bruce) Rutlin and Shirley LeFlore , the dancers Georgia Collins and Luisah Teish, and the painters Oliver Jackson and Emilio Cruz . The group also included music managers Malinke Robert Elliott , Vincent Terrell and Muthal Naidoo . When many musicians from this group moved to New York after 1970, the association gradually began to dissolve. Among other things, this resulted in the Human Arts Ensemble , which recorded the albums Under the Sun and Whisper of Dharma in the early 1970s . The Black Artists Group had close ties to the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) from Chicago , which it initially followed.

Discographic notes

Black Artists Group - Live in Paris, Aries 1973 (Rank & File, 1974)

literature

Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz. 1800 bands and artists from the beginning until today. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-476-01892-X (English edition Rough Guides 2007, ISBN 1-84353-256-5 ).
Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
Benjamin Looker: BAG: Point From Which Creation Begins: The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis. St. Louis Missouri Historical Society Press, 2004. ISBN 1-883982-51-0 .
Dennis Owsley: City of Gabriels - The History of Jazz in St. Louis 1895-1973 Reedy Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1933370040 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Ekkehard Jost : BAG. In: Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost: Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 , p. 582.

[1] Ekkehard Jost : BAG. In: Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost: Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 , p. 582.