Urban Bushmen, official release (no extra musicians as source lists)
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The Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Urban Bushmen
ECM Records ECM 1211/12
1982

If you never had the opportunity to see this band live, this might provide the next best opportunity, although video would better capture the bands striking visual effect -- from Lester Bowie's white lab coat, Joseph Jarmans African face paint, and a stage crammed with percussive allsorts. Recorded at a 1980 concert in Munich, Urban Bushmen not only provides an excellent summation of the Art Ensemble of Chicago's work since 1966, but also substantiates the group's reputation for putting on intense and inspired shows. The album centers around three extended pieces: reed player Joseph Jarmen's "Theme for SCO," the group's "Urban Magic," and reed player Roscoe Mitchell's "Uncle." Over the course of these multi-part "suites," the group effectively blurs the lines between jazz and free jazz, deftly working through New Orleans' marches, turbulent hard bop, highlife/reggae rhythms, and minimalist sound sculptures; while Jarmen, Mitchell, and trumpeter Lester Bowie come up with consistently varied and surprising solo/tandem contributions, drummer Don Moye and bassist Malachi Favors expand the sound with an array of percussion effects and humorous interjections (sirens, car horns, megaphone rants). Moye and Favors are also featured on the percussion vehicles "Promenade: Cote Bamako I & II," "Bush Magic," and "Sun Preconditions II." The set is balanced out by melancholic and sweet ballads by Bowie and Mitchell ("New York Is Full of Lonely People" and "Peter and Judith," respectively). This is one of the Art Ensemble's best recordings, but due to its intense breadth it might not be an ideal first purchase for newcomers. The best entry point into the group's catalog would be a studio record like Nice Guys (1978) or Third Decade (1984).


Malachi Favors - Bass, Percussion, Melodica, Vocals
Famoudou Don Moye - Sun Percussion
Roscoe Mitchell - Saxophone, Flute, Congas
Joseph Jarman - Saxophone, Vocals, Clarinet, Flute, Congas
Lester Bowie - Trumpet, Percussion, Bass Drum, Long Horn, Vocals

Concert Recording, May 1980, Amerika Haus München, Germany.
Engineer - Martin Wieland
Producer - Manfred Eicher



Tracklisting:

Disc 1

1 Promenade: Cote Bamako I (4:11)
2 Bush Magic (5:05)
3 Urban Magic (15:39)
4 Sun Precondition Two/Theme For Sco (21:53)

Disc 2
1 New York Is Full Of Lonely People (7:37)
2 Ancestral Meditation (6:56)
3 Uncle (17:29)
4 Peter And Judith (2:39)
5 Promenade Cote Bamako II (5:57)
6 Odwalla - Theme (5:14)

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