Different visions of the band's roots and possibilities emerge in this 1984 recording. The piece "Funky AECO" is a populist delight, a funk riff driven along by Malachi Favors's electric bass and Don Moye's precisely idiomatic backbeat, then given a surreal push by the unlikely and elephantine sound of Roscoe Mitchell's bass saxophone, with sly inflections contributed by Lester Bowie's trumpet. Joseph Jarman's "Prayer for Jimbo Kwesi" is an utterly different pleasure, a haunting African-flavored tune that weds its open harmonies and repeating melody to subtle use of flutes and synthesizers. Another moment of great subtlety arises in Bowie's refined invocation of Miles Davis in "The Bell Thing." --Stuart Broomer
The Third Decade,The Art Ensemble of Chicago,Ecm Records,Avant-Garde,Avant-Garde Jazz,Free Jazz,Jazz,Pop
Jazz Music:
- The Warm Cafe
- To A Lady
- Together Forever
- Victoriaville 1988 [Live]
- Vol. 6, 1928-1929
- Warm Woods
- When I Grow Too Old Dream [Import]
- Wishes You a Cookin Christmas
- Wrappin' It Up
- #1
Jazz Music
Glass Onion: Songs of the Beatles [Import]
Marini: Moderne e Curiose Inventioni
Music: Heartland: An Appalachian Anthology
Johannes Kalitzke: Bericht über den Tod des Musikers Jack Tiergarten
Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra; Mi-parti; Musique funèbre