• The Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) is an American nonprofit organization, founded in 1965 in Chicago by pianist Muhal Richard...
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  • cemetery for American World War II dead on foreign soil Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a non-profit organization of musicians Civil...
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  • Town, the Circle Coffee Shop, and Berea Church. While strongly influenced by Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, the Black...
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  • with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and the Black Artists' Group (BAG) collective. It was formed in 1971 with the idea...
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    teaches jazz at the University of Virginia. She is a former chairwoman of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Mitchell...
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    The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late...
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    Roscoe Mitchell (category Avant-garde jazz musicians)
    bandleader, Mitchell is known for cofounding the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Mitchell, who is...
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    Matana Roberts (category Jazz musicians from Illinois)
    been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), and a member of the B.R.C. Black Rock Coalition. The works in their...
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    in the 1990s and early 2000s. He is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) and has worked with George Lewis, Ernest...
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  • Joseph Jarman (category Avant-garde jazz musicians)
    musician, composer, poet, and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He was one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and...
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  • Don Myrick (category Musicians from Chicago)
    founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Some of his most famous saxophone solos include Phil Collins' "All of My Life"...
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  • Phil Cohran (category Jazz musicians from Mississippi)
    and for his involvement in the foundation of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Cohran was born in Oxford, Mississippi,...
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    Lester Bowie (category African-American jazz musicians)
    member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and co-founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Born in the historic village of Bartonsville...
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    Anthony Braxton (category Creative Construction Company members)
    Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He received great acclaim for his 1969 double-LP record For Alto, the first full-length album of solo...
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  • Malachi Thompson (category Jazz musicians from Chicago)
    joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), spending some time in the AACM big band. He performed and toured with the Operation...
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    George E. Lewis (category Musicians from Chicago)
    scholar of experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971, when he joined the organization...
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  • Chicago, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians began pursuing their own variety of avant-garde jazz. The AACM musicians (Muhal Richard...
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  • Chicago in the context of The Freedom Principle, a 50th-anniversary exhibition devoted to the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and released...
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    Jazz trio (category Types of musical groups)
    Martin. In the 2000s and since, three members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, trombonist...
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  • the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago and served as vice-chair between 2009 and 2011. In 2009 while on their European tour, the four...
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  • Edward Wilkerson (category Musicians from Indiana)
    the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), teaching composition at the organization's music school and serving for a time as AACM president. The AACM...
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    Henry Threadgill—a reunion of DeJohnette with colleagues from Chicago's Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. The AllMusic review by Thom...
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  • Douglas Ewart (category Musicians from Minneapolis)
    emigrated to the United States in June 1963 (coming to Chicago) and became associated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)...
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    Stockbridge School (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    Jarman of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Richard Abrams, each noted for their early connection with the Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative...
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  • Alvin Fielder (category Musicians from Meridian, Mississippi)
    American jazz drummer. He was a charter member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Black Arts Music Society, Improvisational...
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    presented the classic jazz style in a TV show series. From the mid 1960s to the present day the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians has nurtured...
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    name was chosen – the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). When the AACM started a school in 1967, Abrams led the classes in composition...
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  • artists were affiliated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, founded in 1965. In St. Louis, the multidisciplinary Black Artists...
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  • Edward Wilkerson. The group was founded in 1985 by Wilkerson, also associated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. They began at...
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    Board of Directors, Meet The Composer (founding member) Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) SESAC Atlantic Center for the Arts...
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