The Complete Live in Japan

The Complete Live in Japan
Live album by Art Ensemble of Chicago
Released	1986
Recorded	April 22, 1984
Genre	Jazz
Label	DIW
Producer	Art Ensemble of Chicago
Art Ensemble of Chicago chronology
Among the People (1980) The Complete Live in Japan (1988) The Third Decade (1984)

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The Complete Live in Japan is a live album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago released in 1988 on the Japanese DIW label. It features a live performance by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors Maghostut and Don Moye recorded in Gotanda, Japan in 1984. The original (much shorter) single LP was originally issued in 1985.

Track listing

1. "Spanish Song" (Mitchell) - 25:05
2. "Ancestral Voices/Old" (Jarman/Mitchell) - 11:14
3. "Ornedaruth" (Jarman) - 22:43
4. "The Beginning" (Bowie) - 3:27
5. "Waltz" (Mitchell) - 2:39
6. "Building the Mid" (Moye) - 6:09
7. "Ol' Time Southside Street Dance" (Jarman) - 10:02
8. "Zero" (Bowie) - 6:45
9. "Funky Aeco" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 5:18
10. "Odwalla/Theme" (Mitchell) - 3:29

• Recorded April 22, 1984 at Kanihoken Hall, Gotanda, Tokyo, Japan

Personnel

• Lester Bowie: trumpet, bass drum
• Malachi Favors Maghostut: bass, percussion instruments
• Joseph Jarman: saxophones, clarinets, percussion instruments
• Roscoe Mitchell: saxophones, clarinets, flute, percussion instruments
• Don Moye: drums, percussion

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