The AACM #1

Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians

In questa associazione, creata a Chicago nel 1965 per iniziativa di Muhal Richard Abrams (che sin dal 1961 dirigeva la Experimental Band), con il contrabbassista Malachi Favors, il pianista Jodie Christian, il trombettista Phil Cohran e il batterista Steve McCall, ha militato una grande quantità di musicisti afroamericani. Per citarne alcuni:

• i sassofonisti Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Fred Anderson, Troy Robinson, Edward Wilkerson, John Stubblefield, Chico Freeman, Henry Threadgill, Wallace McMillan, Edwin Daugherty, Richard Brown, Charles Cochran
• i trombettisti Frank Gordon, John Jackson, Lester Bowie, Leo Smith, William Brimfield
• i trombonisti Lester Lashley e George Lewis
• il violinista Leroy Jenkins
• il flautista e polistrumentista Douglas Ewart
• i pianisti Christopher Gaddy, Amina Claudine Myers, Adegoke Steve Colson
• i contrabbassisti Charles Clark, Leonard Jones, Fred Hopkins, Reginald Wallace
• il chitarrista Pete Cosey
• i percussionisti Thurman Barker, Robert Crowder, Kahil El’ Zabar, Alvin Fielder, Phillip Wilson, Jack DeJohnette, Ajaramu (Gerald Donovan)
• nonché poeti (David Moore)
• cantanti (Iqua Colson, Penelope Taylor, George Hines)
• ballerini (Rrata Christine Jones).

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​It is an association created in Chicago in 1965 on the initiative of Muhal Richard Abrams (who since 1961 directed the Experimental Band), with the double bass player Malachi Favors, the pianist Jodie Christian, the trumpeter Phil Cohran and the drummer Steve McCall. In this association, they have played a large amount of African American musicians. To name a few:
• saxophonists Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Fred Anderson, Troy Robinson, Edward Wilkerson, John Stubblefield, Chico Freeman, Henry Threadgill, Wallace McMillan, Edwin Daugherty, Richard Brown, Charles Cochran
• trumpeters Frank Gordon, John Jackson, Lester Bowie, Leo Smith, William Brimfield
• the trombonists Lester Lashley and George Lewis
• the violinist Leroy Jenkins
• the flutist and multi-instrumentalist Douglas Ewart
• pianists Christopher Gaddy, Amina Claudine Myers, Adegoke Steve Colson
• the double basses Charles Clark, Leonard Jones, Fred Hopkins, Reginald Wallace
• the guitarist Pete Cosey
• percussionists Thurman Barker, Robert Crowder, Kahil El ’Zabar, Alvin Fielder, Phillip Wilson, Jack DeJohnette, Ajaramu (Gerald Donovan)
• as well as poets (David Moore)
• singers (Iqua Colson, Penelope Taylor, George Hines)
• dancers (Rrata Christine Jones).
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