Art Ensemble of Chicago
Message To Our Folks (LP)
LabelGet BackGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (records/cover): NM / NM
Gatefold sleeve.
Paris, August 1969. The Art Ensemble of Chicago had left a city that would not book them and found themselves recording for BYG at a rate of roughly one masterpiece a month. Message To Our Folks is arguably the best of that run: Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman and Malachi Favors moving from a straight reading of "Rock Out" through gospel, through the little instruments, through absolute silence, and landing on a version of Charlie Parker's "Dexterity" that mutates into something else entirely. Great Black Music, Ancient To The Future, stated as a working method rather than a slogan.
Italian Get Back edition of the 1969 BYG Actuel album, gatefold sleeve. Not an original press, but a properly presented one and a great deal cheaper than the alternative.
Release notes
Recorded August 12, 1969, Studio Saravah, Paris Reproduction of 1969 original.
| A1 | Old Time Religion | 7:41 | |
| A2 | Dexterity | 4:05 | |
| A3 | Rock Out | 8:35 | |
| B | A Brain For The Seine | 20:18 |
- Art Ensemble of Chicago
- Arranged By
- Malachi Favors
- Bass [Fender], Bass, Banjo, Drum [Log Drum], Zither [Cythar], Percussion
- Claude Jauvert
- Engineer
- Claude Delcloo
- Executive-Producer
- Horace
- Photography By
- Jean Georgakarakos
- Producer
- Jean-Luc Young
- Producer
- Roscoe Mitchell
- Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Bass Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Cymbal, Gong, Congas, Percussion [Logs], Bells, Siren, Whistle, Steel Drums
- Joseph Jarman
- Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Oboe, Flute, Marimba, Vibraphone [Vibes], Congas, Bells, Whistle, Gong, Siren, Guitar
- Lester Bowie
- Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Bass Drum, Horns
