Art Ensemble of Chicago / Meeting, the
Album: Meeting, the   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Art Ensemble of Chicago   Added:Oct 2003
Label:Pi Recordings  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2003-10-27 Pull Date: 2003-12-29 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Nov 30 Nov 23 Nov 9 Nov 2
Airplays: 1 2 3 1

Recent Airplay
1. Nov 28, 2003: Memory Select
Tech Ritter and the Megabytes
4. Nov 07, 2003: Memory Select
The Meeting
2. Nov 21, 2003: Memory Select
Hail We Now Sing Joy
5. Nov 04, 2003: Umami Jazz Program
The Meeting
3. Nov 16, 2003: Oh Messy Life
Wind and Drum
6. Nov 02, 2003: jellydish
Tech Ritter and the ...

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2003-11-21
The latest free-jazz installment from the AES, mostly cool and restrained.
Some tracks of "regular" free jazz (3,5) coupled with quiet cosmic explorations with lots of percussion (2,4,6). Every track is great.

1- Midtempo, fairly conventional; a coolly upbeat song followed by solos
2- A series of slow, contemplative solos, followed by a slowly noisy ensemble segment
3- Chugging and burly
4- Calm flute/percussion, like a Native American ceremony. Slow and meditative.
5- Snaky fast neo-swingy theme; aggressive blowout soloing
6,7 - Meditative jams, faster than #4. 6 gets into more of a tribal-beat thing, while 7 has a wilder jungle-madness feel, but both are fairly mellow.


Track Listing
1. Hail We Now Sing Joy   4. Wind and Drum
2. It's the Sign of the Times   5. The Meeting
3. Tech Ritter and the ...   6. Amin Bidness
  7. The Trian to Io