Art Ensemble of Chicago

If only for its sublime evocation of bagpipe tunes of glory and its redemptive use of
synthesizer – still an expensive plaything in the hands of most jazz musicians – saxophonist
Joseph Jarman's "Prayer for Jimbo Kwesi" is the most striking cut on The Third Decade, the
Art Ensemble of Chicago's first studio album since 1980. But, as you might expect from the
band that gave eclecticism a good name, there is a little bit of everything here, a... More >