AEC on BBC Jazz Library

[ejp626]

Here is the blurb on Friday's Jazz Library program on BBC Radio 3.

Jazz Library

Art Ensemble of Chicago

Friday 26 October 2007 22:30-23:30 (Radio 3)

In the 1960s, a quartet of Chicagoans altered the way improvising jazz groups approached form, instrumentation and structure. Originally led by saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, the band developed to become the collective Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Their recording catalogue is sizeable and diverse, but Alyn Shipton picks a way through it to find the essential discs, guided by the two surviving members, Mitchell and drummer Famadou Don Moye, and their original record producer Chuck Nessa. Including archive interviews with bassist Malachi Favors and trumpeter Lester Bowie.

(I hope Chuck wasn't planning on announcing this himself.)

Anyway, it looks like it should be a great show, and I am particularly curious to hear the archive interviews. By Friday afternoon, it will be available on Listen Again for a week here: BBC Jazz Library (Currently, it is still the Jelly Roll Morton show.)

Edited October 26, 2007 by ejp626

[Peter Johnson]

Nice. Bookmarked and ready to listen. Thanks for helping get this music out there, Chuck.

[Chuck Nessa]

(I hope Chuck wasn't planning on announcing this himself.)

Nope. The program is news to me. Shipton interviewed me a few years ago. I wonder what I said.