''Phase One'' is an album by the

Art Ensemble of Chicago The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ( AACM) in the late 1960s. The ensemble integrates many jazz styles and plays many instruments, including "little ...

recorded in Paris in February 1971 and originally released on the French

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label then reissued in the US on

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the following year. It features

Lester Bowie Lester Bowie (October 11, 1941 – November 8, 1999) was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Biography Born in t ...

Joseph Jarman Joseph Jarman (September 14, 1937 – January 9, 2019) was an American jazz musician, composer, poet, and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He was one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and a member of the ...

Roscoe Mitchell Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazz instrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist". ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' described him as "one of the key figures ...

Malachi Favors Maghostut Malachi Favors (August 22, 1927 – January 30, 2004) was an American jazz bassist who played with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Biography "Favors's tendency to dissemble about his age was a well-known source of mirth to fellow musicians of his g ...

and

Don Moye Donald Moye, Jr. (born May 23, 1946), known as Famoudou Don Moye, is an American jazz percussionist and drummer. He is most known for his involvement with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and is noted for his mastery of African and Caribbean percuss ...

performing two side-long pieces dedicated to

John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of br ...

and

Albert Ayler Albert Ayler (; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. After early experience playing R&B and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s. Howev ...

respectively.

Reception

Jim Miller's

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review stated "The Art Ensemble of Chicago plays a music steeped in the black American musical tradition and its African heritage. They offer the rare spectacle of an intrinsically historical yet wholly contemporary jazz. ''Phase One'' marks one of the year's jazz events on record; more indelibly than '' Bap-Tizum'' it captures the quintessence of this extraordinary group."Miller, J., ''Rolling Stone'', March 28, 1974 p.50-51 The

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review by Thom Jurek states "This is one of the least well-known recordings by the AEC, but it is also one of their most enduring and a true high mark from their Paris period".Jurek, T
Allmusic Review
accessed July 27, 2011

Track listing

# "Ohnedaruth" (Jarman) - 21:30 # "Lebert Aaly .. dedicated to Albert Ayler" (Bowie, Mitchell, Jarman, Favors) - 20:56

Personnel

: trumpet, flugelhorn, steer-horns, etc. *

: soprano, alto and bass saxophones, clarinets, flute, percussion *

: soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, clarinets, oboe, flutes, marimba, vibes, percussion *

: bass and electric bass, banjo, cythar, percussion *

: drums, bass marimba, temple blocks, bells, etc

References

{{Authority control 1973 albums Art Ensemble of Chicago albums America Records albums