And after coalescing from the ranks of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the Art Ensemble had rapidly turned its perhaps quizzical slogan-“Great Black Music, Ancient to the Future”-into a necessary credo for records that proclaimed jazz was more spirit than sound, as rooted to the tribal traditions of Africa as it was the streets of their eponymous city. For a decade, ECM had been striding into the future of both jazz and classical music, with foundational releases by Carla and Paul Bley, Keith Jarrett, and Steve Reich’s frame-shifting Music for 18 Musicians. The legends of both The Art Ensemble of Chicago and ECM Records had started to take shape long before they finally rendezvoused.
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