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Urban Bushmen

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Released
  
1980

Length
  
92:46

Release date
  
1980

Label
  
ECM Records

Recorded
  
May 5 & 6, 1980

Artist
  
Art Ensemble of Chicago

Producer
  
Manfred Eicher

Genre
  
Jazz

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Urban Bushmen (1980)
  
Among the People (1981)

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Full Force, The Third Decade, Nice Guys, Urban Magic, Fanfare for the Warriors

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Urban Bushmen is a 1980 live album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in Munich and released on the ECM label. It features performances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors Maghostut and Don Moye.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Stephen Cook states "Urban Bushmen not only provides an excellent summation of the Art Ensemble of Chicago's work since 1966, but also substantiates the group's reputation for putting on intense and inspired shows".

Track listing

  1. "Promenade: Cote Bamako I" (Moye) - 4:11
  2. "Bush Magic" (Favors, Moye) - 5:05
  3. "Urban Magic" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 15:45
  4. "Sun Precondition Two/Theme for Sco" (Moye/Jarman) - 21:53
  5. "New York Is Full of Lonely People" (Bowie) - 7:37
  6. "Ancestral Meditation" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 6:56
  7. "Uncle" (Mitchell) - 17:29
  8. "Peter and Judith" (Mitchell) - 2:39
  9. "Promenade: Cote Bamako II" (Moye) - 5:57
  10. "Odwalla/Theme" (Mitchell) - 5:14
  • Recorded May 5 & 6 at America Haus, Munich
  • Personnel

  • Lester Bowie: trumpet, bass drum, long horn, vocals
  • Malachi Favors Maghostut: bass, percussion, melodica, vocals
  • Joseph Jarman: saxophones, vocals, clarinets, bassoon, flutes, percussion
  • Roscoe Mitchell: saxophones, flute, percussion, clarinet, vocals
  • Don Moye: sun percussion, vocals
  • Songs

    1Promenade: Cote Bamako I4:12
    2Bush Magic5:06
    3Urban Magic15:45

    References

    Urban Bushmen Wikipedia