The Chicago music scene in the 60s/70s

[Jim Alfredson]

And even more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89IKUF0V_DY

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Wow! What a great and informative thread! And great interviews referenced with Von and Eddie. I've learned quite a bit.

Thank you.

MG

[Chuck Nessa]

Just stumbled on this ancient thread and was sucked in again.

[Lazaro Vega]

Eleanor is 16 now and going to Homecoming this weekend. The recent concert by Roscoe and The Art Ensemble for their 50th Anniversary at The Chicago Jazz Festival found the ensemble expanded to include a string section, two contemporary classical operatic voices, 3 basses, 4 or 5 percussionists, two trumpets and trombone, a poet/electronics person, all in the service of expanding the stylistic reach of the music in the same organic, amoeba-like flow that the best of the AEC is known for, except...it was planned. Very well planned and well rehearsed and executed with a level of professionalism that did not interfere with the music's spontaneity and spirit. I mean, it was wider than anything I'd ever heard. It seemed a logical extension of the AEC's early promise of "anything is possible" and found a way to expand their methodology to reach that; and brings to mind what Bowie said about the music being "young."