Art Ensemble Of Chicago

This day ( April 5, 2018), in New York City, died Cecil Percival Taylor, an American free jazz pianist…

This day (January 3, 1969), in  Detroit, Michigan , is born James Carter, an American jazz saxophonist.

This day (November 8, 1999), in New York, died Lester Bowie, an American jazz trumpet player composer, bandleader, member of the AACM and cofounder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

Lou Donaldson, Thelonious Monk, Roy Hargrove, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Shaw, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Buddy Rich, Art Blakey, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Cecil Taylor