URBAN BUSHMEN - The Art Ensemble of Chicago

URBAN BUSHMEN - The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Disc 1
1. Promenade: Cote Bamako I
2. Bush Magic
3. Urban Magic
a) March
b) Warm Night Blues Stroll
c) Down the Walkway
d) RM Express
4. Sun Precondition Two / Theme For Sco
a) Soweto Messenger
b) Bushman Triumphant
c) Entering the City
d) Announcement of Victory

Disc 2
1. New York Is Full of Lonely People
2. Ancestral Meditation
3. Uncle
4. Peter and Judith
5. Promenade: Cote Bamako II
6. Odwalla/Theme

Lester Bowie - trumpet, bass drum, long horn, vocals
Joseph Jarman - sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophones, vocals, bass clarinet, B♭clarinet, bassoon, piccolo, flute, alto flute, conch shell, vibraharp, celeste, gongs, congas, tom-tom drums, whistles, bells, siren, bass pan drums
Roscoe Mitchell - soprano, alto, tenor, baritone and bass saxophones, piccolo, flute, bongoes, congas, glockenspiel, whistles, bells, pans, vocals
Malachi Favors Maghostut - bass, percussion, melodica, bass pan drums, vocals
Famoudou Don Moye - “Sun Percussion”: trap drums, bender, bike horns, whistles, congas, djimbe, dun-dun, dunno, bongoes, tympani, chekere, conch shell, long horn, elephant horn, gongs, cymbals, chimes, wood blocks, balafon, cans, bass pan drums, vocals, etc.

Concert recording May 1980

ECM 1211/12
BMG 78118 21211-2