When AEC trumpeter Lester Bowie died in November 1999 at the age of 58, the jazz world lost one of its great originals –­ a flamboyant sound-painter, a great soloist, a musical philosopher, and a charismatic performer. On this memorial album his friends and colleagues give a sense of his freewheeling, larger-than-life character. Powerful and uncompromising, “Tribute To Lester” is the first new Art Ensemble recording on ECM in almost 20 years, and one of their very finest discs.

Tracklist

1.SANGAREDI
(Famoudou Don Moye)

2.SUITE FOR LESTER
(Roscoe Mitchell)

3.ZERO / ALTERNATE LINE
(Lester Bowie, Roscoe Mitchell)

4.TUTANKHAMUN
(Malachi Favors Maghostut)

5.AS CLEAR AS THE SUN
(Famoudou Don Moye, Malachi Favors Maghostut, Roscoe Mitchell)

6.HE SPEAKS TO ME OFTEN IN DREAMS
(Famoudou Don Moye, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors Maghostut)