''People in Sorrow'' is a 1969 album by the

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recorded in Boulogne for the French Pathé-Marconi label, later reissued in the US on

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, Roscoe Mitchell and

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Reception

The

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review by Scott Yanow states "The still-startling music, which uses space, dynamics, and a wide range of emotions expertly, is not for everyone's taste (the high-energy tenors of the mid-1960s are actually easier to get into), but worth the struggle".Yanow, S
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said "their masterpiece, ''People in Sorrow'', a forty-minute example of how the group's menagerie of instruments and spontaneous approach to structure can create clearly delineated precisely shaded and starkly emotional music".

Track listing

# "People In Sorrow Part 1" - 17:05 # "People In Sorrow Part 2" - 23:05 :''All compositions by the Art Ensemble of Chicago'' :*Recorded July 7, 1969 in Boulogne, Paris

Personnel

: trumpet, percussion instruments *

: bass, percussion instruments, vocals *

: saxophones, clarinets, percussion instruments * Roscoe Mitchell: saxophones, clarinets, flute, percussion instruments

References

{{Authority control 1969 albums Pathé-Marconi albums Art Ensemble of Chicago albums Nessa Records albums