Reese And The Smooth Ones
Art Ensemble of Chicago
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The Smooth Ones Part 1 | Art Ensemble of Chicago | 20:01 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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The Smooth Ones Part 2 | Art Ensemble of Chicago | 20:46 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 2 Songs |
Album Review
Recorded when the Art Ensemble of Chicago was in Paris and between drummers (Don Moye would not join up until 1970), this English imported LP has a continuous piece featuring trumpeter Lester Bowie, reed players Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman and bassist Malachi Favors all playing plenty of "little instruments" (which include various horns, gongs, logs, bells, sirens, whistles, steel drums, marimba, and banjo, among others) in addition to their mainstays. The episodic music continually holds one's interest, and overall, it makes a unified (if unpredictable) statement.
Biography
Formed: 1966 in Chicago, IL
Genre: Jazz
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s
Originally comprised of saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, bassist Malachi Favors, and later, drummer Famoudou Don Moye, the Art Ensemble of Chicago enjoyed a critical reputation as the finest and most influential avant-garde jazz ensemble of the 1970s and '80s. Whether or not that reputation was wholly deserved is, in retrospect, subject to debate — the World Saxophone Quartet and the Cecil Taylor Unit may well have been more influential. Nevertheless,...
Full BioTop Albums and Songs By Art Ensemble of Chicago
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Thème de Yoyo | 100 Best of Blue Note (Selected By 2Sounds) | 9:01 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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A Jackson In Your House | A Jackson In Your House / Message To Our Folks | 5:43 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Old Time Southside Street Dance | Full Force | 5:11 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Rock Out | A Jackson In Your House / Message To Our Folks | 8:35 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Odwalla Theme | Coming Home Jamaica | 5:08 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Waltz | A Jackson In Your House / Message To Our Folks | 1:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Get In Line | A Jackson In Your House / Message To Our Folks | 5:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Whatever Happens | The Alternative Express | 9:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Ericka | A Jackson In Your House | 3:22 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Care Free | Full Force | 0:46 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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- Genres: Jazz, Music, Avant-Garde Jazz
- Released: Aug 12, 1969
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