Released 1973 Artist Art Ensemble of Chicago Producer Jimmy Douglass Genre Jazz | Recorded September 9, 1972 Release date 1973 Label Atlantic Records | |
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Bap-Tizum
(1972) Fanfare for the Warriors
(1973) Similar Art Ensemble of Chicago albums, Jazz albums | ||
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Bap-Tizum is a 1972 live album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival held at the Otis Spann Memorial Field and first released on the Atlantic label in 1973. It features performances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors Maghostut and Don Moye.
Contents
Art ensemble of chicago introduction and nfamadou boudougou
Reception
Rolling Stone's Bob Palmer wrote "Bap-Tizum features dozens of instruments (all the saxophones from soprano to bass, tempered and non-tepered percussion, etc.) and sequences of colours and moods which range from energy-raising to reflection to explosive anger to sheer soul strutting... The performance gassed ten thousand people, most of whom had never heard of the group, and Atlantic is to be commended for releasing it in all its rough hard-edged grandeur."
The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 5 stars noting that "the Art Ensemble holds back nothing in a chaotic, meandering, exasperating, outrageous -- and, thus, always fascinating -- performance".
Critic Michael G. Nastos calls the album "essential". Author Rafi Zabor describes the album as a "riotous" real-life analogue to his depiction of a fictional, tumultuous Art Ensemble performance in The Bear Comes Home.
Track listing
- "Nfamoudou-Boudougou" (Moye) - 4:16
- "Immm" (Favors) - 5:31
- "Unanka" (Mitchell) - 10:44
- "Oouffnoon" (Mitchell) - 3:25
- "Ohnedaruth" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 15:00
- "Odwalla" (Mitchell) - 5:42
Personnel
Songs
1Introduction By John Sinclair0:35
2Nfamoudou-Boudougou4:16
3Immm5:20