(SOUNDBITE OF THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO COMPOSITION, "JA") WHITEHEAD: Author Paul Steinbeck doesn't say the Art Ensemble peaked in the 1980s, but he speeds through their later years. Longtime ...

Famoudou Don Moye was in his early 20s, an expatriate jazz drummer working in Paris, when he got the invitation to join the Art Ensemble of Chicago. With it came a friendly admonition, from the ...

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit an essential 1979 example of self-described ...

The Art Ensemble of Chicago was already six years into an acclaimed career when it had its first extended run at an American jazz club. In honor of the occasion — at the Five Spot in the East ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. When trumpet great Lester Bowie died in ...

The jazz bassist Malachi Favors, for 35 years a member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, died on Jan. 30 in Chicago. He was 76. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his daughter, Malba Favors Allen.

The Art Ensemble of Chicago is one of the most famous performing groups in jazz. Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, this free-improvising ensemble was born out of the explosion of musical ...

Bassist Malachi Favors, trumpeter Lester Bowie and saxophonist Joseph Jarman have all passed on, leaving the Art Ensemble Of Chicago's remaining original members, saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell and ...

Dreaming of the Masters Vol. 2, Thelonious Monk (Art Ensemble of Chicago with Cecil Taylor, DIW Columbia). The Art Ensemble of Chicago inhabits a line that leads rather directly back to Thelonious ...

The Art Ensemble of Chicago with Cecil Taylor, Dreaming of the Masters Vol. 2 (Columbia/DIW): If you’re not in an altered state when you start listening to jazz pianist Cecil Taylor’s “Intro ...