21 CD box of Art Ensemble of Chicago on ECM

[GregK]

Seems to be a straight reissue of everything Art Ensemble-related on ECM, including the recent Roscoe Mitchell and Jack DeJohnette Made in Chicago releases. Includes a 200 page booklet! There are still a few of these that I haven't gotten yet, and at around $110 or so on Amazon I might get this.

https://jazzdesk.wordpress.com/2018/09/21/the-art-ensemble-of-chicago-in-a-box/

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Ensemble-Chicago-Associated-Ensembles/dp/B07HGBR8YJ/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1538704026&sr=1-1&keywords=art+ensemble+of+chicago

 

 

[sidewinder]

Wow - tempting !

I was pondering an LP copy of ‘Urban Bushmen’ at about a quarter the price of this set the other day. So, good bang for buck.

Edited October 6, 2018 by sidewinder

[mjazzg]

That "and associated ensembles" is really pushing the envelope as wide as possible it would seem.  Got most of it, possibly all, on the original discs or vinyl I think.

[JSngry]

It's a good per-disc price, but I think I have it all? Is there a list somewhere?

[clifford_thornton]

Cool cube. Lotta fantastic music.

[felser]

Tempting, but I have most if not all of the actual AEC CD's on ECM, and believe the "associated" titles would probably have diminishing returns for me, and need to draw the line somewhere.  But very tempting at that price, and a further price drop could certainly do me in...

[sidewinder]

It’s tempting for me - as I only have the two Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy titles and these are on vinyl.

Plus - the booklet. Likely only half of it in English but, even so..

Edited October 6, 2018 by sidewinder

[Scott Dolan]

3 hours ago, JSngry said:

It's a good per-disc price, but I think I have it all? Is there a list somewhere?

Hell yeah! Most of the time in the collectable Jazz pantheon you’re usually looking at $20+ per disc. 

This is an outstanding value. Hell, I may even spring for it. 

[felser]

I went ahead and pre-ordered it.  I can cancel if I change my mind, and really, how far wrong can I go on it?

[greggery peccary]

$82 including shipping to preorder through importcds.com

I'm in.

importcds.com

Edited October 6, 2018 by greggery peccary

[paul secor]

For anyone who doesn't already have most or all of this (I do), it's a no-brainer.

Edited October 7, 2018 by paul secor

[GregK]

19 hours ago, JSngry said:

It's a good per-disc price, but I think I have it all? Is there a list somewhere?

can't find list anywhere yet, but i'm also wondering what could be in the 200 page booklet. New essay, all pictures? I'll wait until more info is available before ordering

[sidewinder]

I wonder if the booklet will be one of those ECM designer minimalist things with half a dozen words and a pic on each page, repeated for English/German. I’m optimistic though !

[mjazzg]

I only have one of the ECM whitebox reissue series of which this looks to be the very big brother.  In that set the booklet has a 10.5 page essay, in English only, on Codona with 5 pages of photos and two of discographical info so I think your optimism may be well founded across 200 pages.

What isn't included is the original cover art but as a Mosaic aficionado I'm sure that'll be OK with you...but drives me mad 

[ghost of miles]

17 hours ago, greggery peccary said:

$82 including shipping to preorder through importcds.com

I'm in.

importcds.com

Just pre-ordered through this link... thanks much for the heads-up!

[Jim Duckworth]

17 hours ago, greggery peccary said:

$82 including shipping to preorder through importcds.com

I'm in.

importcds.com

I too used this link and would like to thank you for the heads up.  I'm hoping there might be a Kenny Wheeler or Tomasz Stanko cube up ECM's sleeve.

[sidewinder]

2 hours ago, mjazzg said:

I only have one of the ECM whitebox reissue series of which this looks to be the very big brother.  In that set the booklet has a 10.5 page essay, in English only, on Codona with 5 pages of photos and two of discographical info so I think your optimism may be well founded across 200 pages.

What isn't included is the original cover art but as a Mosaic aficionado I'm sure that'll be OK with you...but drives me mad 

Thanks - I’ll be happy to live without the cover art, as long as the sonics are good. I have one of those smaller whiteboxes, more than happy with it.

[ghost of miles]

A poster at ProgressiveEars has a rundown of the set:

 

Disc: 1
1. CD 1 - Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Nice Guys - Ja
2. Nice Guys
3. Folkus
4. 5 9 7 - 5 9
5. Cyp
6. Dreaming Of The Master

Disc: 2
1. CD 2 - Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Full Force - Magg Zelma
2. Care Free
3. Charlie M
4. Old Time Southside Street Dance
5. Full Force

Disc: 3
1. CD 3 - Art Ensemble of Chicacgo: Urban Bushmen - Promenade: Cote Bamako I
2. Bush Magic
3. Urban Magic: March / Warm Night Blues Stroll / Down the Walkway / RM Express
4. Sun Precondition Two / Theme For Sco: Soweto Messenger / Bushman Triumphant / Entering the City / Announcement of Victory

Disc: 4
1. CD 4 - Art Ensemble of Chicacgo: Urban Bushmen (CD2) - New York Is Full Of Lonely People
2. Ancestral Meditation
3. Uncle
4. Peter And Judith
5. Promenade: Cote Bamako II
6. Odwalla/Theme

Disc: 5
1. CD 5 - Art Ensemble of Chicacgo: The Third Decade - Prayer For Jimbo Kwesi
2. Funky AECO
3. Walking In The Moonlight
4. The Bell Piece
5. Zero
6. Third Decade

Disc: 6
1. CD 6 - Leo Smith: Divine Love - Divine Love
2. Tastalun (dedicated to Lester Bowie)
3. Spirituals: The Language Of Love

Disc: 7
1. CD 7 - Lester Bowie: The Great Pretender - The Great Pretender
2. It's Howdy Doody Time
3. When The Doom (Moon) Comes Over The Mountain: a) Doom? b) When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain
4. Rios Negros
5. Rose Drop
6. Oh, How The Ghost Sings

Disc: 8
1. CD 8 - Lester Bowie: All The Magic! - For Louie
2. Spacehead
3. Ghosts
4. All The Magic!/Everything Must Change/T. Jam Blues
5. Let The Good Times Roll

Disc: 9
1. CD 9 - Lester Bowie: All The Magic! (CD2) - Organic Echo
2. Dunce Dance
3. Charlie M. (Part II)
4. Thirsty?
5. Almost Christmas
6. Down Home
7. Okra Influence
8. Miles Davis Meets Donald Duck
9. Deb Deb's Face
10. Monkey Waltz
11. Fradulent Fanfare
12. Organic Echo (Part II)

Disc: 10
1. CD 10 - Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy: I Only Have Eyes For You - I Only Have Eyes For You
2. Think
3. Lament
4. Coming Back, Jamaica
5. Nonet
6. When The Spirit Returns

Disc: 11
1. CD 11 - Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy: Avant Pop - The Emperor
2. Saving All My Love For You
3. B Funk
4. Blueberry Hill
5. Crazy
6. Macho (Dedicated To Machito)
7. No ****
8. Oh, What A Night

Disc: 12
1. CD 12 - Art Ensemble of Chicago: Tribute to Lester - Sangaredi
2. Suite for Lester
3. Zero / Alternate Line
4. Tutankhamun
5. As Clear as the Sun
6. He Speaks to Me Often in Dreams

Disc: 13
1. CD 13 - Roscoe Mitchell: Nine To Get Ready - Leola
2. Dream And Response
3. For Lester B
4. Jamaican Farewell
5. Hop Hip Bip Bir Rip
6. Nine To Get Ready
7. Bessie Harris
8. Fallen Heroes
9. Move Toward The Light
10. Big Red Peaches

Disc: 14
1. CD 14 - Roscoe Mitchell, The Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Composition / Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 - I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
7. VII
8. VIII
9. IX

Disc: 15
1. CD 15 - Evan Parker, The Transatlantic Art Ensemble: Boustrophedon - Overture
2. Furrow 1
3. Furrow 2
4. Furrow 3
5. Furrow 4
6. Furrow 5
7. Furrow 6
8. Finale

Disc: 16
1. CD 16 - Roscoe Mitchell, The Note Factory: Far Side - Far Side / Cards / Far Side
2. Quintet 2007 A For Eight
3. Trio Four For Eight
4. Ex Flover Five

Disc: 17
1. CD 17 - Roscoe Mitchell: Bells For The South Side - Spatial Aspects of the Sound
2. Panoply
3. Prelude to a Rose
4. Dancing in the Canyon
5. EP 7849
6. Bells for the South Side

Disc: 18
1. CD 18 - Roscoe Mitchell: Bells For The South Side (CD2) - Prelude to the Card Game, Cards for Drums, and The Final Hand
2. The Last Chord
3. Six Gongs and Two Woodblocks
4. R509A Twenty B
5. Red Moon In The Sky / Odwalla

Disc: 19
1. CD 19 - Jack DeJohnette, New Directions: New Directions - Bayou Fever
2. Where Or Wayne
3. Dream Stalker
4. One Handed Woman
5. Silver Hollow

Disc: 20
1. CD 20 - Jack DeJohnette, New Directions: In Europe - Salsa For Eddie G.
2. Where Or Wayne
3. Bayou Fever
4. Multo Spiliagio

Disc: 21
1. CD 21 - Jack DeJohnette, Muhal Richard Abrams, Larry Gray, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill: Made In Chicago - Chant
2. Jack 5
3. This
4. Museum of Time
5. Leave Don't Go Away
6. Announcement
7. Ten Minutes

Edited October 7, 2018 by ghost of miles

[Scott Dolan]

Made In Chicago is one of my favorite albums in recent memory. Glad they are including it. 

[JSngry]

Well hell, that's more coverage than I had expected. I have a lot of it on LP, and that importcd price is < $4/disc. I'd be a fool not to do that deal right now.

[felser]

The DeJohnette New Directions CD's seal the deal for me.

[Steve Reynolds]

Impossible to not get this even though I don’t like the way ECM made these guys sound on record. I always thought Urban Bushmen if it was recorded as the band must have sounded live would have been an all-time great record.

[Д.Д.]

Nice price, although none of the AEC ECM releases are that good, IMHO. As far as I am concerned, with AEC the earlier - the better.  

[king ubu]

So 15 or 16 new Art Ensemble albums? Now *that* would be a feast! 

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, Д.Д. said:

Nice price, although none of the AEC ECM releases are that good, IMHO. As far as I am concerned, with AEC the earlier - the better.  

Quite to the contrary I`m also fond of post ECM material .... fi "From The Ancient To The Future" (DIW) - saw the AEC with this program live in 1986 @ Vienna and they were on fire....