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- Music, Music Feature Aug 27, 2019
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The Art Ensemble of Chicago celebrate 50 years of pushing great Black music into the future
Surviving cofounders Roscoe Mitchell and Famoudou Don Moye expand the group into an 18-piece big band with the likes of Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Jaribu Shahid, and Fred Berry.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 29, 2017
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Avant-garde elder Roscoe Mitchell celebrates 50 years of Nessa Records
When the AACM and the Art Ensemble of Chicago were still young, Chuck Nessa’s label helped raise them up.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 2, 2016
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An out-of-print experimental gem from drummer Phillip Wilson gets new life
Corbett vs. Dempsey continues to reissue overlooked, out-of-print treasures from the Hat Hut catalog.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 27, 2012
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A career highlight of soul and gospel singer Fontella Bass
The great soul and gospel singer Fontella Bass is dead at 72
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 24, 2009
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Brass bonanza
I'll be spinning a bumper crop of brass-band music Wednesday night at the Hideout, where the main attraction is saxophonist Fred Anderson--he'll play in a trio with Harrison Bankhead and Tim Daisy and in a duo with Hamid Drake.
