''The Spiritual'' is an album by the

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recorded in 1969 for the Freedom label as the same sessions that produced ''

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''.Jazzlists: Art Ensemble Of Chicago discography
accessed November 26, 2017 It features performances by

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, Roscoe Mitchell and

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 ...

Reception

The

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review stated "this stunning 1974 album, ''The Spiritual'', finds the Art Ensemble of Chicago at their artistic height. Reduced to an unusual drummerless quartet for this session (reedsmen Joseph Jarman and Roscoe Mitchell, horn player Lester Bowie and bassist/banjo player Malachi Favors all double on various types of percussion), the group explores one of the main stems of jazz, New Orleans gospel and second-line music, without sacrificing its freer sounds. Indeed, without a traditional drummer, the group is free to play at its most unrestrained, unfettered by conventions of tempo".

Track listing

# "Toro" (Roscoe Mitchell) - 8:30 # "Lori Song" (Joseph Jarman) - 3:58 # "That the Evening the Sky Fell Through the Glass Wall and We Stood Alone Somewhere?" (Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman) - 6:00 # "The Spiritual" (Mitchell) - 20:06

Personnel

: trumpet, percussion instruments *

: bass, percussion instruments, vocals *

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Spiritual, The 1969 albums Freedom Records albums Art Ensemble of Chicago albums Black Lion Records albums