Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City

Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City
Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City
Live album by Art Ensemble of Chicago
Released	July 25, 2006
Recorded	April 2 & 3 2004
Genre	Jazz
Label	Pi Recordings
Producer	Art Ensemble of Chicago
Art Ensemble of Chicago chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[2]

Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at the Iridium is a live album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in April, 2004 at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City and released in 2006 on the Pi Recordings label. It features performances by Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell and Don Moye with trumpeter Corey Wilkes and bassist Jaribu Shahid replacing the late Lester Bowie and Malachi Favors Maghostut.

Reception[edit]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states that "Some of the music on this two-CD set is almost hard bop although a bit eccentric; other selections meander a bit in sound explorations or percussion displays, and others find the group pushing ahead".^[3]

Track listing[edit]

Disc One

"Song for My Sister" (Mitchell) - 17:00
"The Morning Mist" (Art Ensemble Of Chicago) - 6:47
"Song for Charles" (Mitchell) - 8:52
"On the Mountain" (Art Ensemble Of Chicago) - 19:25
"Big Red Peaches" (Mitchell) - 7:34
"Odwalla" (Mitchell) - 5:21

Disc Two

"Erika" (Jarman) - 19:59
"Malachi" (Mitchell) - 9:01
"The J Song" (Jarman) - 11:46
"Red Sand Green Water" (Art Ensemble Of Chicago) - 14:28
"Slow Tenor and Bass" (Mitchell) - 2:27
"Odwalla" (Mitchell) - 3:59

Recorded live at Iridium, New York on April 2 & 3, 2004

Personnel[edit]

Roscoe Mitchell: soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, clarinet, flute, percussion
Joseph Jarman: soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute, percussion
Famoudou Don Moye: drums, percussion
Corey Wilkes: trumpet, pocket trumpet, flugelhorn
Jaribu Shahid: bass, electric bass

References[edit]

^ Allmusic Review
^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
^ Yanow, S. Allmusic review accessed 16 February 2009.

[1] Allmusic Review

[Penguin-2] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

[3] Yanow, S. Allmusic review accessed 16 February 2009.

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v t e Art Ensemble of Chicago
Roscoe Mitchell Don Moye Jaribu Shahid Hugh Ragin Tomeka Reid Dudu Kouate Joseph Jarman Lester Bowie Malachi Favors Phillip Wilson Corey Wilkes Baba Sissoko Ari Brown Elliot Ngubone
Pre-Art Ensemble of Chicago	Sound Old/Quartet Numbers 1 & 2 Early Combinations Congliptious
Studio albums	A Jackson in Your House Tutankhamun The Spiritual People in Sorrow Message to Our Folks Reese and the Smooth Ones Eda Wobu Comme à la radio Certain Blacks Go Home Chi-Congo Les Stances a Sophie Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass Phase One Fanfare for the Warriors Nice Guys Full Force The Third Decade Naked Ancient to the Future The Alternate Express Art Ensemble of Soweto America – South Africa Dreaming of the Masters Suite Thelonious Sphere Monk: Dreaming of the Masters Series Vol. 2 Coming Home Jamaica Tribute to Lester The Meeting Sirius Calling
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