With the passing in 2017 of the pianist Muhal Richard Abrams and trumpeter Phil Cohran, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, formed in Chicago in 1965, lost the last two of the ...

The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) celebrated its 60th anniversary and late founder Dr. Richard Muhal Abrams with a series of performances and discussions at Roulette ...

They changed the way we think about music. Fifty years ago, a group of South Side jazz musicians found themselves backed against a wall. Clubs were closing, radio stations were going pop, America’s ...

Before he moved to New York and became a key drummer in Miles Davis’ powerful electric lineup, circa Bitches Brew, Jack DeJohnette played drums all over Chicago in the early 1960s. This was the same ...

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Wadsworth Jarrell of AfriCOBRA took this photo for the AACM in his backyard, probably in 1968. Left to right, on the ground: Wadada Leo Smith, Sarnie Garrett, Wadsworth Jarrell Jr., Muhal Richard ...

Fifty years ago, the popularity of rock ‘n roll was in the process of eclipsing, or some even say killing jazz. Changing tastes, sagging record sales, and shuttered clubs left a lot of musicians out ...

“Two significant things shaped my childhood in Hyde Park: One was the beautiful network of public parks; the other was the arts festivals. There’s a tendency in my field to silo away certain things, ...

When Chicago went into lockdown last year, like so many of us, Coco Elysses turned to her phone as a lifeline — specifically Clubhouse, the invite-only social networking app that blew up during the ...

The Association of the Advancement of Creative Music (AACM) was created 50 years ago in Chicago to give voice to adventurous African American musicians and to express the political turmoil of the era.

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Two deaths in early January, of percussionist Alvin Fielder and multi-instrumentalist/poet/dramaturge Joseph Jarman, help remind us that artists' lives shouldn't be ...