The Complete Live in Japan
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The Complete Live in Japan is a live album
by the Art Ensemble of Chicago
released in 1988 on the Japanese DIW
label. It features a live performance by Lester Bowie
, Joseph Jarman
, Roscoe Mitchell
, Malachi Favors Maghostut and Don Moye
recorded in Gotanda
, Japan
in 1984. The original (much shorter) single LP was originally issued in 1985.
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
by the Art Ensemble of Chicago
Art Ensemble of Chicago
The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz ensemble that grew out of Chicago's AACM in the late 1960s. The group continues to tour and record through 2006, despite the deaths of two of the founding members....
released in 1988 on the Japanese DIW
DIW Records
DIW Records is a Japanese record label. It is a subsidiary label of Disc Union and specializes in jazz and avant garde music. Kazunori Sugiyama was an executive producer for the label before starting Tzadik Records with John Zorn.-Discography:...
label. It features a live performance by Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie
Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the AACM, and cofounded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Biography:...
, Joseph Jarman
Joseph Jarman
Joseph Jarman , is a jazz musician, composer and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He is perhaps best known as one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Early life:Jarman grew up in Chicago, Illinois...
, Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell
Roscoe Mitchell is an African American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb—if idiosyncratic—saxophonist." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past...
, Malachi Favors Maghostut and Don Moye
Don Moye
Famoudou Don Moye, is an American jazz percussionist and drummer. He is most known for his involvement with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and is noted for his mastery of African and Caribbean percussion instruments and rhythmic techniques.- Early life and Detroit Free Jazz :Moye was born in...
recorded in Gotanda
Gotanda
is a busy neighbourhood in the Shinagawa ward of Tokyo, Japan. The name "Gotanda" can be literally translated as "a paddy of half-hectare's size"...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
in 1984. The original (much shorter) single LP was originally issued in 1985.
Track listing
- "Spanish Song" (Mitchell) - 25:05
- "Ancestral Voices/Old" (Jarman/Mitchell) - 11:14
- "Ornedaruth" (Jarman) - 22:43
- "The Beginning" (Bowie) - 3:27
- "Waltz" (Mitchell) - 2:39
- "Building the Mid" (Moye) - 6:09
- "Ol' Time Southside Street Dance" (Jarman) - 10:02
- "Zero" (Bowie) - 6:45
- "Funky Aeco" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 5:18
- "Odwalla/Theme" (Mitchell) - 3:29
- Recorded April 22, 1984 at Kanihoken Hall, Gotanda, Tokyo, Japan
Personnel
- Lester BowieLester BowieLester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the AACM, and cofounded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Biography:...
: trumpet, bass drum - Malachi Favors Maghostut: bass, percussion instruments
- Joseph JarmanJoseph JarmanJoseph Jarman , is a jazz musician, composer and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He is perhaps best known as one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Early life:Jarman grew up in Chicago, Illinois...
: saxophones, clarinets, percussion instruments - Roscoe MitchellRoscoe MitchellRoscoe Mitchell is an African American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb—if idiosyncratic—saxophonist." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past...
: saxophones, clarinets, flute, percussion instruments - Don MoyeDon MoyeFamoudou Don Moye, is an American jazz percussionist and drummer. He is most known for his involvement with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and is noted for his mastery of African and Caribbean percussion instruments and rhythmic techniques.- Early life and Detroit Free Jazz :Moye was born in...
: drums, percussion