Made In Chicago

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Cat No: 3780935

Release Date: 19 January 2015

Label: ECM

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 602537809356

Genres: Jazz Contemporary

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With Made in Chicago, an exhilarating live album, Jack DeJohnette celebrates a reunion with old friends Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Richard Abrams and Henry Threadgill. It was recorded at the 2013 Chicago Jazz Festival.
In 1962, DeJohnette, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill were all classmates at Wilson Junior College on Chicago's Southside, pooling energies and enthusiasms in jam sessions. Shortly thereafter Jack joined Muhal Richard Abrams' Experimental Band, and Roscoe and Henry soon followed him. When Abrams co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians in 1965, DeJohnette, Mitchell and Threadgill were all deeply involved from the outset, presenting concerts and contributing to each other's work under the AACM umbrella.

Jack brought them together again for a very special concert at Chicago's Millenium Park in August 2013, completing the group with the addition of bassist/cellist Larry Gray. The concert recording was mixed by Manfred Eicher and Jack DeJohnette at New York's Avatar Studio. Made in Chicago is issued as the AACM begins its 50th anniversary year, and is both a powerful contemporary statement and a reminder of the wealth of great diverse music and innovative approaches to playing, writing and arranging which the organization has introduced over the years.

The album features compositions by Roscoe Mitchell ("Chant" and "This"), Muhal Richard Abrams ("Jack 5"), Jack DeJohnette ("Museum of Time"), and Henry Threadgill ("Leave Don't Go Away"), as well as the collective improvisation "Ten Minutes".

Personnel: Jack DeJohnette (drums), Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone, bass flute, bass recorder), Roscoe Mitchell (soprano and alto saxophones, wooden flute), Muhal Richard Abrams (piano), Larry Gray (double bass, cello)
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