This week the Free Jazz Blog is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) with a series of reviews highlighting seminal and personally resonant albums from each decade of their existence. The series began on 5/18 and will continue through the weekend with a series of contemporary reviews.
Air – Air Song (Whynot/trio Records, 1975)
Creative Construction Company – Ccc 1 &Amp; 2 (Muse, 1975)
Roscoe Mitchell: Old Quartet (Nessa, 1975)
Anthony Braxton with Muhal Richard Abrams – Duets 1976 (Arista, 1976)
Revolutionary Ensemble: Revolutionary Ensemble (Inner City Records/enja, 1977)
Roscoe Mitchell: Nonaah (Nessa, 1977)
Lester Bowie – African Children (Horo, 1978)
Leo Smith, Peter Kowald, Günter Sommer – Touch the Earth – Break the Shells (1979/1981, Fmp)
Art Ensemble of Chicago – Nice Guys (Ecm, 1979)
George Lewis: Homage to Charles Parker (Black Saint, 1979)
Ethnic Heritage Ensemble: Three Gentlemen from Chikago (Moers Music, 1981)
Muhal Richard Abrams – Levels and Degrees of Light (1968)
Roscoe Mitchell – Sound (1966)
Joseph Jarman – Song for (1967)
Art Ensemble of Chicago – People in Sorrow (Pathé Marconi, 1969)
Art Ensemble of Chicago: a.a.c.m. great Black Music – a Jackson in your House / Message to Our Folks / Reese and the Smooth Ones (Byg Records, 1969 / 2013)
Anthony Braxton – for Alto (Delmark, 1969)
Kalaparusha Maurice Mcintyre – Humility in the Light of Creator (Delmark, 1969)
Art Ensemble of Chicago Les Stances À Sophie (Pathé Marconi, 1970)
Revolutionary Ensemble – Vietnam (1972)
Anthony Braxton – the Complete Braxton (Freedom, 1973)
Roscoe Mitchell – the Roscoe Mitchell Solo Saxophone Concerts (1974)
the Thing &Amp; Thurston Moore – Live (the Thing Records/trost, 2015) ****½
Merzbow/mats Gustafsson/balázs Pándi/thurston Moore – Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (Rarenoiserecords, 2015)
Mats Gustafsson &Amp; Thurston Moore – “Hit the Wall!” (Smalltown Superjazzz, 2015) ****
Thurston Moore + Mats Gustafsson – Live at Henie Onstad Kunstenter (Prisma Records, 2015) ****½
Paal Nilssen-love – Cut and Bleed (Ideal, 2015) *****
Agustí Martínez, Eduard Altaba, Quicu Samsó – Phantom Wall Syndrome (Discordian, 2014) ****
Gonçalo Almeida, John Dikeman &Amp; George Hadow – O Monstro (Creative Sources, 2014) ****
Tom Chant, John Edwards, Eddie Prévost – all Change (Matchless, 2014) ****½
Lucien Johnson, Alan Silva &Amp; Makoto Sato – Stinging Nettles (Improvising Beings, 2014) ***½
Olie Brice, Tobias Delius &Amp; Mark Sanders – Somersaults (Two Rivers, 2015) ****½
Ab Baars Trio – Slate Blue (Wig, 2015) ****
Paul Rogers, Robin Fincker &Amp; Fabien Duscombs – Whahay (Mr Morezon, 2014) ***½
Travis Laplante, Trevor Dunn &Amp; Ches Smith – Ancestral Instrument (Nna Tapes, 2014) ***½
Giovanni Maier, Daniele D’agaro &Amp; Zlatko Kaucic – Disorder at the Border (Palomar, 2015) ****
Mike Noordzy, David Freeman &Amp; Daniel Carter – the Imaginary Quartet (Nacht, 2014) ***½
Gianni Gebbia Magnetic Trio – Prospero (Objet-a, 2014) ***½
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