hatte mich gerade an das hier von Chuck Nessa erinnert,
„Roscoe had already made the RM Art Ensemble a cooperative group, and when Joseph came aboard he dropped his name. This group had a fine following in Chicago, but they wanted to move on to bigger and better things – they had already tried NY but didn’t think the fit was right. They left for Europe in the late spring of 1969, at the suggestion of Steve McCall. Steve was in Paris playing with Steve Lacy and Marion Brown.“
was die Entstehung des Namens betrifft, kann man zB Art Simmons‘ Kolumne in Jet lesen, 1970 erzaehlt er von „l’Art Ensemble“ mit Roscoe Mitchell , Malachi Favors , Leslie Bowie , Larry Jarman and Grachan Moncur III, 1971 dann vom Chicago Art Ensemble mit Don Moore, Mitchell, Bowie und Jarman… (krieg das mit den links nicht hin, das hier muesste der eine sein, google books
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