Roscoe Mitchell

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

The saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell from Chicago was one of the first members of the AACM. In 1966 he recorded Sound, the first album by an AACM musician. Besides saxophone and trumpet, it features bells, whistles, harmonica and silence. His group grew into the Art Ensemble of Chicago, with the trumpeter Lester Bowie, the saxophonist Joseph Jarman and the bassist Malachi Favors; later the drummer Famoudou Don Moye joined. Mitchell plays all the saxophones, from soprano to bass, and also writes for orchestra. He taught for years at Mills College in California.

Listening

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  Ornette · Roscoe Mitchell, 1966
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  Nonaah · Roscoe Mitchell, 1973
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  Odwalla · Art Ensemble of Chicago, 1972
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  Sound · Roscoe Mitchell, 1966

Discography

Studio albums

• 1975Old / Quartet
• 1977Nonaah
• 1978L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples
• 1978Roscoe Mitchell Duets with Anthony Braxton
• 1981More Cutouts
• 1981New Music for Woodwinds and Voice
• 1987Four Compositions
• 1991Songs in the Wind
• 1992After Fallen Leaves
• 1995First Meeting
• 1995Hey Donald
• 19962-Z
• 1997Sound
• 2000Hymn for Roscoe
• 20018 O’Clock: Two Improvisations
• 2003Solo [3]
• 2005First Look: Chicago Duos
• 2006Streaming
• 2007Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3
• 2007Illuviation
• 2008Kirili et les Nymphéas: Hommage a Monet (Improvised Music at the Musée de l'Orangerie)
• 2011Before There Was Sound
• 2013Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin
• 2014Conversations I
• 2014Conversations II
• 2014Tone Ventures
• 2017Discussions
• 2017Four Ways
• 2017Sound
• 2018Ride the Wind
• 2019Performing Distant Radio Transmission Also Nonaah Trio, Cutouts for Woodwind Quintet and 8.8.88
• 2020Flow States
• 2021Dots - Pieces for Percussion and Woodwinds

Other work

• 1966Sound
• 1969People in Sorrow · Art Ensemble of Chicago

In School of Rock

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Mentioned in other articles

• AACM and the Chicago avant-garde GenreThe saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell recorded Sound in 1966, with bells, whistles and small percussion alongside wind instruments.

See also

• Hey Donald
• 8 O’Clock: Two Improvisations
• Solo [3]
• Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin
• AACM and the Chicago avant-garde
• Free jazz