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- Record Label: Pi Recordings
- Release Date: Apr 26, 2019
- Summary: The first full-length studio release in 15 years from the Chicago avant-garde jazz group includes a live CD of a concert from Ann Arbor's Edgefest 2018 as well as a studio session.
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- Record Label: Pi Recordings
- Genre(s): Jazz, Avant-Garde, Modern Creative, Modern Composition, Avant-Garde Jazz, Chamber Jazz, Modern Free, Free Jazz
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Jun 25, 2019Both a graceful tribute and a testament to these musicians’ questing vision.
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UncutJun 25, 2019A 4LP limited box adds a typically transcendent live set from Ann Arbor, mixing new tracks with retooled classics: a 19-minute take on "Tutankhamun" still feels far out. [Aug 2019, p.26]
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MojoJun 25, 2019Featuring chamber music, operatic art singing, spoken word, drum circles and horns and woodwinds ecstatically blowing--all outside-time examples of the group's motto: "Great Black Music, Ancient too the Future." [Aug 2019, p.95]
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Jun 25, 2019The sheer breadth of the ensemble's expression on We Are on the Edge is staggering, a strident declaration that Mitchell and Moye will carry the AEC's powerful, boundary-less creative ethos full force into its sixth decade.
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The WireJul 23, 2019Delivers on the forward-looking promise of The Art Ensemble’s motto: great black music – ancient to the future. [May 2019, p.61]
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Jul 29, 2019Following ECM's 21-disc retrospective Art Ensemble Of Chicago and Associated Ensembles, this new collection serves as a forward-looking, optimistic companion.
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