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Urban Bushmen (CD)

By: Art Ensemble Of Chicago (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Urban Bushmen (CD) Album By Art Ensemble Of Chicago (Artis...
1   Promenade: Cote Bamako I
2   Bush Magic
3   Urban Magic: March / Warm Night Blues Stroll / Down The Walkway / RM Express
4   Sun Precondition Two Theme For Sco: Soweto Messenger / Bushman Triumphant / Entering The City / Announcement Of Victory
 
DISC 2 for Urban Bushmen (CD) Album By Art Ensemble Of Chicago (Artis...
1   New York Is Full Of Lonely People
2   Ancestral Meditation
3   Uncle
4   Peter And Judith
5   Promenade: Cote Bamako II
6   Odwalla / Theme
 
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The Wire (8/00, pp.40-1) - "...Their best recorded concert...featuring many by-now routine but strong performance practices, while also exhibiting their high degree of musicality..."

Title Note

Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Joseph Jarman (vocals, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone & bass saxophones, piccolo, flute, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, whistle, conch shell, vibraphone, celeste, congas, tom-tom, bass steel drums, gong, bells, siren); Roscoe Mitchell (vocals, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone & bass saxophones, piccolo, flute, bamboo flute, clarinet, whistle, bongos, congas, steel drums, bells, glockenspiel); Lester Bowie (vocals, trumpet, long horn, bass drum); Malachi Favors Maghostut (vocals, melodica, bass, bass steel drums, percussion); Famoudou Don Moye (vocals, bike, elephant & long horns, whistle, conch shell, bendir, drums, bongos, congas, djimbe, djun-djun, donno, tympani, bass steel drums, cymbals, chekere, wood block, gong, chimes, belafon, cans).

Recorded live in May 1980. Includes liner notes by Joseph Jarman.

This double-disc live set represents the Art Ensemble of Chicago at the peak of its powers. The Art Ensemble is known for the exploratory and riveting nature of its live shows, and URBAN BUSHMEN proves why. Intense, expressive, and stylistically adventurous, the Ensemble's music merges jazz with African song and conceptual art music (the band regularly employs silence and incidental noise as part of its soundscapes). Live, these combinations are electrifying, as saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Malachi Favors, and drummer Don Moye create extended improvisations in accordance with the band's free-form, all-encompassing musical ethic.

The concert centers around three lengthy, multi-part suites: "Urban Magic," "Theme for SCO," and "Uncle." These range from 15 to 20-plus minutes, and embrace marches, blues, "soundtrack" music, lyrical post-bop solos, and passages of free blowing. Elsewhere, shorter compositions, including the heartbreaking "New York Is Full of Lonely People," the smoothly grooving "Odwalla/Theme," and the percussion-heavy "Bush Magic" (which feels at once tribal and avant-garde), provide balance to the shape-shifting suites. Though the sheer amount of material may prove intimidating to non-fans, URBAN BUSHMEN is one of Art Ensemble's most definitive statements.

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