Art Ensemble of Chicago (Corporate Name)

Bap-tizum. [Phonodisc] 1973.

Grove music online, October 23, 2013 (Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC); free-jazz quintet: Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman (reed instruments, vibraphone, marimba, and unusual winds such as whistles and conch shells), Lester Bowie (brass instruments, harmonica, celeste, kelp horn, etc.), Malachi Favors (double bass, zither, melodica, banjo), and Don Moye ("sun percussion"); evolved from Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians; formed in Paris in 1969 as a quartet consisting of Mitchell, Jarman, Bowie and Favors; Moye joined in 1970; the group returned to the United States in 1971 and toured until Bowie's death in Nov. 1999)

Information from 678 field, converted Jan. 13, 2018 (instrumental quintet)