

Product description 1980 classic ECM album fronted by Lester Bowie & Roscoe Mitchell & incl a tribute to Charles Mingus Review "An excellent document of the Ensemble's most focused work in this period . . ." -- desertcart.com"Like Duke Ellington and Count Basie, the Modern Jazz Quartet and the aggregations of Charles Mingus, the Art Ensemble . . . expanded the expressive possibilties for jazz . . ." -- New York Times, 1976 Review: The recording quality is excellent with wide frequency response - This is a phenomenal album. It brings back the live shows The Art Ensemble of Chicago did at the Edmonton Jazz Festival around 1980. The music is highly experimental, tonally diverse and completely non-commmercial. The recording quality is excellent with wide frequency response, transparent imaging and wide dynamic range indicative of all ECM recordings. I would highly recommend this album to anyone who understands and embraces modern avant-garde Jazz. Review: AEC are an amazing jazz ensemble - AEC are an amazing jazz ensemble! Full Force and Nice guys are my favorite discs. I highly recommend both albums for those who are open to free jazz and Great African Music!





















| ASIN | B001CSQIPU |
| Best Sellers Rank | #155,582 in CDs & Vinyl ( See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl ) #750 in Avant Garde & Free Jazz (CDs & Vinyl) #65,426 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars (48) |
| Date First Available | July 25, 2008 |
| Item model number | 1779873 |
| Label | ECM |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | ECM |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Original Release Date | 2008 |
| Product Dimensions | 5.55 x 5 x 0.08 inches; 3.2 ounces |
D**H
The recording quality is excellent with wide frequency response
This is a phenomenal album. It brings back the live shows The Art Ensemble of Chicago did at the Edmonton Jazz Festival around 1980. The music is highly experimental, tonally diverse and completely non-commmercial. The recording quality is excellent with wide frequency response, transparent imaging and wide dynamic range indicative of all ECM recordings. I would highly recommend this album to anyone who understands and embraces modern avant-garde Jazz.
P**N
AEC are an amazing jazz ensemble
AEC are an amazing jazz ensemble! Full Force and Nice guys are my favorite discs. I highly recommend both albums for those who are open to free jazz and Great African Music!
J**B
this is a must have collector of fine art and jazz
organic and pleasing to the ears. this is a must have collector of fine art and jazz.
G**9
Too easy, Too cool
I ordered this online, and lo and behold, it was delivered to my home. Too easy, Too cool.
A**Y
OK
Everything perfect... AJS
T**D
Well recorded and wide open artistically.
I don’t know what their best is but I’ve been going back this a lot one since I submitted to the jazz gods that were insisting I purchase the associated ensembles box set. Well recorded and wide open artistically. Not for the tight minded.
Ö**N
One of the best Jazz albums of the 80's
I saw them life in Reykjavik in the early 80's and I knew nothing about them then and the show was a great experience, this was different to say the least, the guys dressed in african costumes with painted faces (except Lester Bowie who looked like a doctor) and the stage full of interesting instruments, it was grand fun. Full Force is in my opinion the best album from the group (Urban Bushmen is also great) the playing is full of passion and the compositions are higly interesting, original and just pure fun. One of the things that I really like is, apart from the traditional Jazz instruments like drumset, bass, sax and trompet they play all kinds of handdrums,percussion, bells and whistles, it's a kind of music that appeals to the emotion, intellect and the funny bone (another great guy who does that is of course Frank Zappa). Highly recommended.
A**I
I am most interested in free jazz.
This is the most interresting music I have ever listened. This music is instructive.
I**D
The Art of Ensemble of Chicago terrified me when I was a teenager getting into jazz and struggling to get beyond Thelonious Monk. Wind forward 35 years and this record serves to remind you just how poor so much contemporary jazz is. Whereas they initially struck me as being too radical and detached from what I understood jazz to be, a record like "Full Force" not only stand firmly within the tradition but offers an approach which is positively Shakespearean. It is also a reminder that ECM once really knew what great jazz was and didn't seem ashamed to promote groups like AEoC. Captured in a wonderful audio quality, the music has an electric charge throughout. We may be talking about Free Jazz yet the music swings mightily and there is always something happening. The opening track seems to grow from the smallest germ of an idea and crackles with excitement. Lester Bowie was the first avant gardist who captured my imagination and this was largely because there was something about his playing the evoked the likes of Freddie Keppard and King Oliver. The blues tribute to Charlie Mingus takes this further, with Bowie almost sounding like Cootie Williams. It is difficult to take your ears away from listening to this music and the whole craftsmanship of the players, whether as soloists or part of the exotic ensembles makes you realise the folly of many of today's critics who think "cutting edge" means a piano trip with a funny name. All in all, this is an absolutely brilliant disc and one which is likely to appeal to a broad range of jazz fans and not just committed fans of the Chicago avant garde. This record is unreservedly recommended.
S**I
Eine spannende CD des AEoC, bei der man am Ende denkt: schade, schon vorbei? Eine ungewöhnliche, aber durchaus geordnet auftretende Instrumentenfülle schafft die besondere Atmosphäre, die so typisch für das Art Ensemble ist. Die Musik wirkt afrikanisch-ursprünglich und gleichzeitig von der modernen europäischen und amerikanischen E- und U-Musikkultur geprägt. Wie sie daraus etwas völlig eingenständiges hinbekommen, ist sehr faszinierend. 2 längere Stücke erschienen so auch auf der ECM-CD Selected Recordings dieser Formation. Also Achtung, dass man hier keine Doppelkäufe tätigt.
S**O
Di sicuro tra i lavori meno avventurosi e free dell'Ensemble che negli ultimi anni si accasarono presso la Ecm, ma comunque non privo di momenti interessanti.
G**A
Ich bin in den 60-70 mit dem Jazz der damaligen Zeit als ständiger Begleiter ins Leben gestartet. Art Ens. of Chicago kenne ich u.Ä. von damals und freue mich, dass ich aktuell darauf nicht verzichten muß. Alles gut.
S**Y
アート・アンサンブル・オブ・シカゴ(以下、AEC)を本商品レビューを読み、初めて購入いたしました。 AECはいろいろなところでいわゆるフリー・ジャズのカテゴリに入れられることが多いようで、これまで腰が引けていましたが、聴いて大正解でした。 フレーズが常套句ばかりに陥らないだけでなく、「フリー・ジャズ」という範疇からさえフリーである、フリーであろうという意気が感じられました。一方で先人や伝統的なブラック・ミュージック(アフリカンであったり、ディキシーであったり、バップであったり・・)への敬意、ルーツ・ミュージックへのECMなりの目配せもそこかしこで見受けられました。なんだか土の匂いまでしてきそうな感じです。 何より彼らが自身の楽器を口の延長のように楽器を操る、まさに血の通った音・演奏です。自分の思う音を楽器から出すことができ、グループのトータル・サウンドとしてどう聴こえるかにまで意思疎通ができていると感じます。そうでなければまさに「形式上のフリー・ジャズ」、ただの混沌で終わってしまうでしょう。 ジャケットのクレジットではレスター・ボウイ(tp. 圧巻)以外の管楽器奏者2人がいくつかの管を担当し、パーカッションもやっています。メイン打楽器のドン・モイエも多彩な打楽器を操ります。マラカイ・フェイヴァーズのドクドクと脈打つベース。グループ全体のうねり、躍動するビートは圧巻。こちらの細胞までブルブルと細動しそうなエネルギーです。 1曲目はまるで人類の夜明けを表現するようなアブストラクさで幕を開けます。まさにアフリカを思わせる曲です(そういえばコルトレーンにも『アフリカ・ブラス』という名盤がありました)。炸裂するパーカッションにいななきのような管。intermission的な2曲目(46秒)を経た3曲目は、おそらくタイトルから察するにミンガスに捧げた1曲。トラディショナルな響きの中にそれとない悲哀めいたものが漂います。4曲目は急速調のAEC流のビ・バップと思しき曲。アルバム・タイトルの5曲目は最もアブストラクト。しかし聴きづらいということはまったくありません。 演奏、サウンドが放つdelightは聴いているこちらまで幸せで包んでくれるような新鮮さで飽きさせることを知りません。 タイトル通りFull force(全力、全精力)な1枚でした。静と動のめくるめく疾風怒濤の42分。 ‘Full Force’ Recorded January 1980 An ECM Production
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