{"id":351,"date":"2010-11-12T07:26:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T12:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2010\/11\/aacm_at_45_creative_musicians\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:32:46","slug":"aacm_at_45_creative_musicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/11\/aacm_at_45_creative_musicians.html","title":{"rendered":"AACM at 45: “Creative Musicians” span generations, U.S., globe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AACM — Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians — continues after 45 years to encourage highly original, edgy and exciting artists — as I detail in my new City Arts column.<\/a> Examples in New York City: reedist\/composer Henry Threadgill’s Zooid<\/a> performs tonight and tomorrow at Roulette; trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith’s 22-piece Silver Orchestra and the duo of keyboardist-singer Amina Claudine Myers and drummer Reggie Nicholson are the bill for the AACM-New York”s<\/a> concluding concert of its fall 2010 season on November 19 at The Community Church of New York; NEA Jazz Master Muhal Richard Abrams, the pianist, composer and improviser who co-founded the organization 45 years ago and has guided it ever since celebrates his 80th birthday by collaborating with two very different small ensembles at Roulette on December 2. <\/p>\n

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And in Chicago<\/a>, an AACM 45th anniversary festival is going on with trombonist-computer composer George E. Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Ernest Dawkins, Douglas Ewart, Mike Reed, Phil Cohran and many others concertizing at the Museum of Contemporary Art<\/a>, and conducting open master classes. Hail to creative musicians everywhere!<\/p>\n
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