Originally released in 1987 on Virgin's Venture label, this rare gem is on a limited license to Katalyst from Virgin. It features Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy in it's original form with Lester Bowie,... more

The 200 pages in the book and the 111tracks on the CDs underscore the turning points in the evolution of jazz, one of America's proudest inventions. This magnificent new box expands and updates the... more

The production team at AECO has once more gone through the archives and come up with another gem, culminating in the release of 'Fundamental Destiny', a record of a live 1991 Art Ensemble concert... more

Avant garde jazz 1972.

This is a compilation of music performed with some of the groups I was collaborating with from the beginning of Ictus. You'll hear the very first group, a quartet with Evan Parker, Eugenio Colombo... more

Another historical recording from one of the most prolific groups in jazz. Recorded live in Montreaux, in 1974, Kabalaba captures the Art Ensemble during a very strong period for the group. With... more

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1969 album from the French Avant-Garde artist. While her debut, Brigitte Fontaine Est... Folle, was a unique take on French chanson, here the Art... more

This is a very special recording of historical importance. The Ritual Trio in it's original configuration (featuring Lester Bowie and Malachi Favors) recorded live in Saafelden in 1987. This... more

In an often-quoted phrase, James Carter, 27, has been called "the most exciting young saxophonist to arrive on the scene in the last 25 years." His records have made year-end best-of lists in the New... more

I love composing improvised music and improvising composed music - improvising is something you can't improvise - the main thing is to evaluate the urgency of saying something as it is being said -... more

(12-CD set) Includes the following CDs: Clangs, in Real Time, Drops, in Concert, New York Tapes, Doctor Faustus, the US Concerts, the Bay, Back to the Future, Thirty Years from Monday, Rebels,... more

Includes Air Mail Special Barrett Deems Big Band; Through the Night Franz Jackson; Brainville Sun Ra; One for Luba Ari Brown; Basin Street Blues Art Hodes, and many others.

The very first AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) record ever, recorded in 1966 with Lester Bowie, Malachi Favors & others.

Veteran jazz sideman is one mean trumpet playing monster on this live show recorded at the Knitting Factory & Zinc Bar in New York City - it features Lester Bowie, Alex Blake, Badal Roy, Tommy... more

Music with a fiery, forceful character; eclectic and energizing, with hues of blues and tinges of reggae... "Mauro Ottolini is a multi-instrumentalist and his music - rising from the brass he blows... more

2-CD set documents both the live performance at Munich's Marstall Theatre & broadcast by Bayerfscher Rundfunk. Based on two radio plays, "Zero Sun" & "No Point" by Geerken, this complex performance... more

This album was recorded live in 1980 & was originally released as a bootleg LP entitled "Among the People". After the release, the LP's producer Kostas Yannoulopoulos & The Art Ensemble of Chicago... more

Compositions written and performed by taj mahal, allen toussaint, david murray, steve swallow, carla bley, lester bowie, kip hanrahan, carman moore, olu dara, jamaaladeen tacuma, puntilla, milton... more