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Roscoe Mitchell

One of the top saxophonists to come out of Chicago's AACM movement of the mid-'60s, Roscoe Mitchell is a particularly strong and consistently adventurous improviser long associated with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. After getting out of the military, Mitchell led a hard bop sextet in Chicago (1961) which gradually became much freer.

He was a member of Muhal Richard Abrams's Experimental Band and a founding member of the AACM in 1965. Mitchell's monumental Sound album (1966) introduced a new way of freely improvising, utilizing silence as well as high energy and “little instruments” as well as conventional horns. Lester Bowie and Malachi Favors were on that date and Mitchell's 1967 follow-up Old/Quartet.

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Discography

Accelerated Projection

Accelerated Projection

Rogue Art
2018

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Discussions

Discussions

Wide Hive Records
2017

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Bells for the South Side

Bells for the South...

ECM Records
2017

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Angel City

Angel City

Rogue Art
2015

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Conversations I

Mutable Music
2014

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Conversations II

Conversations II

Wide Hive Records
2014

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