Been downloading and burning the above links today. Fun stuff.
FWIW, I received an email from John Litweiler telling me "The Art Ensemble of Chicago for the foreseeable future is a quartet of Leo Smith, trumpet ; Roscoe Mitchell, saxes; Jaribu Shadid, bass; Don Moye,
percussion.
Don was on my radio program tonight and said that Muhal, George,
and Braxton were not going to tour with the Art Ensemble this year -
anything other than the quartet is somebody's pipe dream. "
Wadada/Leo is one of my favorite people.