Ended Wednesday and welcomed Thursday after a swim with The Ritual by Kahil El'Zabar Featuring Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors, released on Sound Aspects Records in 1987.

Kahil El'Zabar is one of Chicago's jazz treasures. A member of the AACM, music holds no boundaries for El'Zabar, who has not only played alongside a myriad of jazz greats, but was in the bands of Stevie Wonder, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, and Nina Simone (who he also designed clothes for), as well as recording with rock bands like Sonia Dada and Poi Dog Pondering and heading up the jazz/house outfit the JUBA Collective. He was also chosen to do the arranging for the stage performances of The Lion King. This is in addition to leading his own longstanding Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and Ritual Trio.. --- Sean Westergaard, Rovi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-X1uNwVpGU

#KahilElZabar #LesterBowie #MalachiFavors #Jazz #FreeJazz #AACM #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #Music

Sound is the debut album by free jazz saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, recorded in 1966 and released on the Delmark label. It features performances by Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors, Maurice McIntyre, Lester Lashley and Alvin Fielder.

... Wadada Leo Smith commented: "It's no accident that Roscoe called that important piece of his Sound. Sound - not pitch - that's the difference." According to Mitchell, "[t]he musicians are free to make any sound they think will do, any sound that they hear at a particular time. That could be like somebody who felt like stomping on the floor... well, he would stomp on the floor..." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLq2jx8oSbE&list=RDRLq2jx8oSbE&start_radio=1

#RoscoeMitchell #LesterBowie #MalachiFavors #ArtEnsembleofChicago #FreeJazz #Delmark #Music #Jazz #AlvinFielder #AACM

Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Phase One" (1971)

https://youtu.be/YP5Y71ploUU

#NowPlaying #ArtEnsemble #ArtEnsembleOfChicago #AACM #MalachiFavors #DonMoye #RoscoeMitchell #LesterBowie #JosephJarman #vinyl #VinylRecords @vinylrecords

Other Afternoons is an album by American jazz saxophonist Jimmy Lyons, recorded in 1969 and released in 1970 on the BYG label as part of their Actuel series.

In his AllMusic review, Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 4.5 stars, stating "this album stands out as containing much superior playing, springing from what seems to be a fully realized conception of just where the music was going". He wrote: "The combination of Lyons with Lester Bowie is simply marvelous. The alto saxophonist's speciality is a kind of pungent yet unsentimental tone, kind of a thinking man's Charlie Parker, while trumpeter Bowie seems to pack every note, whether it is blasted or delicately blown, with deep pockets of potential comedy or melancholy..." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dst7aiCc4k4&list=RDDst7aiCc4k4&start_radio=1

#JimmyLyons #FreeJazz #LesterBowie #AlanSilva #AndrewCyrille #Music #BYG #Actuel #Jazz #EugeneChadbourne

Les Stances a Sophie is a 1970 soundtrack album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in Paris for a French film of the same name directed by Moshé Mizrahi. It was released on the Pathé Marconi label in France and on Nessa Records in the U.S. It features performances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Fontella Bass and Don Moye. Moshé Mizrahi commissioned the original music for the film when the band had only two weeks left on their French visas.

Rolling Stone writer Robert Palmer observed: "Sophie is a film score and the group essays bop, free music, a neo-dixieland and pounding R&B. There are saxophone solos by Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell, solid walking from bassist Malachi Favors, aggressive percussion from Don Moye and a searing Fontella Bass vocal."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmN9rkVfsmo

#ArtEnsembleofChicago #freejazz #josephjarman #roscoemitchell #lesstancesasophie #donmoye #lesterbowie

#ArtEnsembleOfChicago

#TributeToLester
#ManfredEicher
#ECMRecords #EditionOfContemporaryMusic #ECM 2003

Un homenaje cálido, brillante.
Conversación entre buenos amigos que se despiden.

https://ecmrecords.com/product/tribute-to-lester-art-ensemble-of-chicago

#LesterBowie #música #jazz #freejazz #avantgarde #vanguardia #arte #Chicago #Illinois #EstadosUnidos

#NowPlaying Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender (ECM Records, Germany 1981).

Lester Bowie's first album for the ECM label.

A fun record.

#LesterBowie #ECMRecords

#NowPlaying Gittin' To Know Y'all (MPS Records, 1970).

Recorded during the annual Baden-Baden Free Jazz Meeting in 1969.

Four different groups :
- Baden-Baden Free Jazz Orchestra (Lester Bowie, Dave Burrell, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Albert Mangelsdorff, Barre Phillips, Kenny Wheeler, Claude Delcloo…)
- The Terje Rypdal Group (with Joseph Jarman, Steve McCall…)
- Karin Krog
- The Willem Breuker-John Surman Duo

Monster record!
And that cover art 🖤

#LesterBowie #MPSRecords #FreeJazz

Wishing you all a smooth Sunday.
Radio Teleocene, Episode #6 is now streaming via Soundcloud. This is what it sounds like in my studio while I am painting. An hour of music you are probably familiar with and wish you could play more often but just can't find where it is. Including tracks by:
#HerbieMann
#LesterBowie
#RubenBlades
#Mandingo
#TitoRamos
#C.J.& Co.
#BenEKing
#GroverWashington
#TenWheelDrive & #GenyaRavan
#stevierayvaughan #DoubleTrouble

https://on.soundcloud.com/gDY5CNsU5YmH6LE96

@jrosen707 +Leaders!!!

Saw 'em at Graham Chapel in St Louis, on the Washington University campus.
Epic.
Thanks for the reminder!
1993-03-19, they closed with Blueberry Hill, I don't know the rest of the setlist.
#LesterBowie