Art Ensemble of Chicago

Art Ensemble of Chicago
Art Ensemble of Chicago
	Art Ensemble of Chicago, New Jazz Festival Moers (Moers Festival), 1978
Background information
Origin	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Genres	Avant-garde jazz, free jazz
Years active	1969–present
Labels	BYG, Nessa, Delmark, ECM, AECO, Pi
Members	Roscoe Mitchell; Famadou Don Moye; and "guests";
Past members	Lester Bowie; Malachi Favors; Joseph Jarman; Phillip Wilson; Corey Wilkes; Baba Sissoko; Ari Brown; Elliot Ngubone;
Website	www.artensembleofchicago.com

The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late 1960s.^[1] The ensemble integrates many jazz styles and plays many instruments, including "little instruments": bells, bicycle horns, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and various forms of percussion. The musicians would wear costumes and face paint while performing. These characteristics combined to make the ensemble's performances both aural and visual. While playing in Europe in 1969, five hundred instruments were used.^[2]

^ Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin Books. p. 21. ISBN 0-141-00646-3.
^ Jost, Ekkehard (1975). Free Jazz (Studies in Jazz Research 4). Universal Edition. p. 177.

[RCJE-1] Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin Books. p. 21. ISBN 0-141-00646-3.

[2] Jost, Ekkehard (1975). Free Jazz (Studies in Jazz Research 4). Universal Edition. p. 177.

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