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The deaths of multi-instrumentalist Joseph Jarman<\/a>, best known as the face-painted shaman of the Art Ensemble of Chicago<\/a>, and Alvin Fielder<\/a>, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

re-conceptualizing drummer, remind us that artists’ contributions to music extend beyond recordings and awards. Read my essay<\/a> at NPR Music, commissioned by Nate Chinen of WBGO<\/a>, on the enduring legacies of Jarman and Fielder, both founding members of the still thriving Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) NY <\/a>and Chicago<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n


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The deaths of multi-instrumentalist Joseph Jarman, best known as the face-painted shaman of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and Alvin Fielder, re-conceptualizing drummer, remind us that artists’ contributions to music extend beyond recordings and awards. Read my essay at NPR Music, commissioned by Nate Chinen of WBGO, on the enduring legacies of Jarman and Fielder, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,1707,201,1355,20,1497,856,634],"class_list":{"0":"post-2548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"tag-aacm","9":"tag-alvin-fielder","10":"tag-association-for-the-advancement-of-creative-musicians","11":"tag-howard-mandel","12":"tag-jazz","13":"tag-jazz-beyond-jazz","14":"tag-joseph-jarman","15":"tag-wbgo","16":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/images-7.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-F6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2133,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2016\/10\/dr-richard-wang-enabler-of-aacm-experimentalists-rip.html","url_meta":{"origin":2548,"position":0},"title":"Dr. Richard Wang, enabler of AACM experimentalists, RIP","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"October 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"In his first college teaching job at Wilson Junior College during the early 1960s, trumpeter Dick Wang encountered a\u00c2\u00a0cadre of exploratory young Chicago musicians who would soon form the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). 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