tracks

Ja
Nice Guys
Folkus
5 9 7 - 5 9
Cyp
Dreaming Of The Master
Magg Zelma
Care Free
Charlie M
Old Time Southside Street Dance
Full Force
Promenade: Cote Bamako I
Bush Magic
Urban Magic: March / Warm Night Blues Stroll / Down The Walkway / Rm Express
Sun Precondition Two / Theme For Sco: Soweto Messenger / Bushman Triumphant / Entering The City / Announcement Of Victory
New York Is Full Of Lonely People
Ancestral Meditation
Uncle
Peter And Judith
Promenade: Cote Bamako II
Odwalla/Theme
Prayer For Jimbo Kwesi
Funky AECO
Walking In The Moonlight
The Bell Piece
Zero
Third Decade
Divine Love
Tastalun (Dedicated To Lester Bowie)
Spirituals: The Language Of Love
The Great Pretender
It's Howdy Doody Time
When The Doom (Moon) Comes Over The Mountain: A) Doom? B) When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain
Rios Negros
Rose Drop
Oh, How The Ghost Sings
For Louie
Spacehead
Ghosts
All The Magic! / Everything Must Change / T. Jam Blues
Let The Good Times Roll
Organic Echo
Dunce Dance
Charlie M. (Part II)
Thirsty?
Almost Christmas
Down Home
Okra Influence
Miles Davis Meets Donald Duck
Deb Deb's Face
Monkey Waltz
Fradulent Fanfare
Organic Echo (Part II)
I Only Have Eyes For You
Think
Lament
Coming Back, Jamaica
Nonet
When The Spirit Returns
The Emperor
Saving All My Love For You
B Funk
Blueberry Hill
Crazy
Macho (Dedicated To Machito)
No Shit
Oh, What A Night
Sangaredi
Suite For Lester
Zero / Alternate Line
Tutankhamun
As Clear As The Sun
He Speaks to Me Often in Dreams
Leola
Dream And Response
For Lester B
Jamaica Farewell
Hop Hip Bip Bir Rip
Nine To Get Ready
Bessie Harris
Fallen Heroes
Move Toward The Light
Big Red Peaches
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
Overture
Furrow 1
Furrow 2
Furrow 3
Furrow 4
Furrow 5
Furrow 6
Finale
Far Side / Cards / Far Side
Quintet 2007 A For Eight
Trio Four For Eight
Ex Flover Five
Spatial Aspects Of The Sound
Panoply
Prelude To A Rose
Dancing In The Canyon
EP 7849
Bells For The South Side
Prelude To The Card Game, Cards For Drums, And The Final Hand
The Last Chord
Six Gongs And Two Woodblocks
R509A Twenty B
Red Moon In The Sky / Odwalla
Bayou Fever
Where Or Wayne
Dream Stalker
One Handed Woman
Silver Hollow
Salsa For Eddie G.
Where Or Wayne
Bayou Fever
Multo Spiliagio
Chant
Jack 5
This
Museum Of Time
Leave Don't Go Away
Announcement
Ten Minutes

notes

℗ 1979-2017 ECM Records GmbH, Munchen
© 2018 ECM Records GmbH, Munchen

21-CD boxset.
The CDs are inserted in 18 carboard gatefold sleeves, numbered I to XVIII (one by album).
And the box also includes a 300-page book reprising all original album covers, liner notes and poetry, as well as quotes from Art Ensemble members and the press, new texts. Plus: many photographs (some previously unpublished), archival documents, and more.

Art Ensemble Of Chicago Nice Guys (I) recorded May 1978 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg and originally issued on ECM 1126
Art Ensemble Of Chicago Full Force (II) recorded January 1980 at Columbia Recording Studios, New York and originally issued on ECM 1167
The Art Ensemble Of Chicago Urban Bushmen (III) recorded live May 1980 at Amerika Haus, München and originally issued on ECM 1211/12
Art Ensemble Of Chicago Third Decade (IV) recorded June 1984 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg and originally issued on ECM 1273
Leo Smith Divine Love (V) recorded September 1978 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg and originally issued on ECM 1143
Lester Bowie The Great Pretender (VI) recorded June 1981at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg and originally issued on ECM 1209
Lester Bowie All The Magic! / The One And Only (VII) recorded June 1982 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg and originally issued on ECM 1246/47
Lester Bowie' Brass Fantasy I Only Have Eyes For You (VIII) recorded February 1985 at Rewiston Recording Studio, New York and originally issued on ECM 1296
Lester Bowie' Brass Fantasy Avant Pop (IX) recorded March 1986 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg and originally issued on ECM 1326
Art Ensemble Of Chicago Tribute To Lester (X) recorded September 2001 at Chicago Recording Company, Chicago and originally issued on ECM 1808
Roscoe Mitchell And The Note Factory Nine To Get Ready (XI) recorded May 1997 at Avatar Studios, New York and originally issued on ECM 1651
Roscoe Mitchell And The Transatlantic Art Ensemble Composition / Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (XII) recorded September 2004 at Muffathalle, München and originally issued on ECM 1872
Evan Parker And The Transatlantic Art Ensemble Boustrophedon (In Six Furrows) (XIII) recorded September 2004 at Muffathalle, München and originally issued on ECM 1873
Roscoe Mitchell And The Note Factory Far Side (XIV) recorded March 2007 at Stadtsaal, Burghausen and originally issued on ECM 2087
Roscoe Mitchell Bells For The South Side (XV) recorded September 2015 at Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago and originally issued on ECM 2494/95
Jack De Johnette New Directions (XVI) recorded June 1978 at Talent Studio, Oslo and originally issued on ECM 1128
Jack De Johnette New Directions In Europe (XVII) recorded June 1979, live at Willisau and originally issued on ECM 1157
Jack De Johnette Made in Chicago (XVIII) recorded August 29, 2013, live at the Pritzker Pavillon Millenium Park, Chicago at the 35th Annual Chicago Festival and originally issued on ECM 2392

credits

Design – Bernd Kuchenbeiser
Editor – Manfred Eicher, Steve Lake (2), Thomas Herr (2)
Ensemble – Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy (tracks: 10-1 to 11-8), Roscoe Mitchell And The Note Factory (tracks: 13-1 to 13-10, 16-1 to 16-4), Art Ensemble Of Chicago, (tracks: 1-1 to 2-5, 5-1 to 5-6, 12-1 to 12-6), The Art Ensemble Of Chicago (tracks: 3-1 to 4-6), The Transatlantic Art Ensemble, (tracks: 14-1 to 15-8)
Executive-Producer [Original Album] – Manfred Eicher (tracks: 21-1 to 21-7)
Liner Notes – Craig Taborn, Famoudou Don Moye, George Lewis, Jack DeJohnette, Joseph Jarman, Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Manfred Eicher, Peter Kemper, Roscoe Mitchell, Steve Lake (2), Thomas Staudter, Vijay Iyer, Leo Smith,
Producer [Original Albums] – Dave Love (tracks: 21-1 to 21-7), Jack DeJohnette (tracks: 21-1 to 21-7), Lester Bowie (tracks: 10-1 to 10-6), Manfred Eicher (tracks: 1-1 to 13-10, 19-1 to 20-4), Steve Lake (2) (tracks: 14-1 to 18-5)

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – ECM Records GmbH
Copyright (c) – ECM Records GmbH
Recorded At – Tonstudio Bauer
Recorded At – Columbia Recording Studios
Recorded At – Amerika-Haus, München
Recorded At – Rawiston Recording Studio
Recorded At – Chicago Recording Company
Recorded At – Avatar Studios
Recorded At – Muffathalle
Recorded At – Stadtsaal, Burghausen
Recorded At – Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago
Recorded At – Talent Studio
Recorded At – Jazz Festival Willisau
Recorded At – Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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