Art Ensemble of Chicago

Roscoe Mitchell reeds, percussion
Malachi Favors Maghostus double-bass, percussion
Famoudou Don Moye drums, percussion

Sangaredi
Suite for Lester
Zero: Alternate Line
Tutankhamun
As Clear as the Sun
He Speaks to Me Often in Dreams

Recorded September 2001

When AEC trumpeter Lester Bowie died in November 1999 at the age of 58, the jazz world lost one of its great originals –­ a flamboyant sound-painter, a great soloist, a musical philosopher, and a charismatic performer. On this memorial album his friends and colleagues give a sense of his freewheeling, larger-than-life character. Powerful and uncompromising, “Tribute To Lester” is the first new Art Ensemble recording on ECM in almost 20 years, and one of their very finest discs.