Art Ensemble of Chicago Songtexte
Hail We Now Sing Joy

I Nice Guys

1. Ja
2. Nice Guys
3. Folkus
4. 5 9 7 - 5 9
5. Cyp
6. Dreaming of the Master

II Full Force

1. Magg Zelma
2. Care Free
3. Charlie M
4. Old Time Southside Street Dance
5. Full Force

III Urban Bushmen

1. Promenade: Cote Bamako I
2. Bush Magic
3. Urban Magic : March / Warm Night Blues Stroll / Down the Walkway / Rm Express
4. Sun Precondition Two / Theme for Sco : Soweto Messenger / Bushman Triumphant / Entering the City / Announcement of Victory

III Urban Bushmen

1. New York Is Full of Lonely People
2. Ancestral Meditation
3. Uncle
4. Peter and Judith
5. Promenade: Cote Bamako II
6. Odwalla/Theme

IV The Third Decade

1. Prayer for Jimbo Kwesi
2. Funky Aeco
3. Walking in the Moonlight
4. The Bell Piece
5. Zero
6. Third Decade

V Divine Love

1. Divine Love (von Wadada Leo Smith)
2. Spirituals: The Language of Love (von Wadada Leo Smith)

VI The Great Pretender

1. The Great Pretender (von Lester Bowie)
2. It's Howdy Doody Time (von Lester Bowie)
3. Rose Drop (von Lester Bowie)
4. Oh, How the Ghost Sings (von Lester Bowie)

VII - I All the Magic!

1. For Louie (von Lester Bowie)
2. Spacehead (von Lester Bowie)
3. Ghosts (von Lester Bowie)
4. Let the Good Times Roll (von Lester Bowie)

VII - II The One and Only

1. Organic Echo (von Lester Bowie)
2. Dunce Dance (von Lester Bowie)
3. Charlie M. (Part II) (von Lester Bowie)
4. Thirsty? (von Lester Bowie)
5. Almost Christmas (von Lester Bowie)
6. Down Home (von Lester Bowie)
7. Okra Influence (von Lester Bowie)
8. Miles Davis Meets Donald Duck (von Lester Bowie)
9. Monkey Waltz (von Lester Bowie)
10. Fradulent Fanfare (von Lester Bowie)
11. Organic Echo (Part II) (von Lester Bowie)

VIII I Only Have Eyes for You

1. I Only Have Eyes for You (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
2. Think (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
3. Lament (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
4. Coming Back, Jamaica (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
5. Nonet (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
6. When the Spirit Returns (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)

IX Avant Pop

1. The Emperor (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
2. Saving All My Love for You (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
3. B Funk (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
4. Blueberry Hill (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
5. Crazy (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
6. Macho (Dedicated to Machito) (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
7. No Shit (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)
8. Oh, What a Night (von Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy)

X Tribute to Lester

1. Sangaredi
2. Suite for Lester
3. Zero / Alternate Line
4. Tutankhamun
5. As Clear as the Sun
6. He Speaks to Me Often in Dreams

XI Nine to Get Ready

1. Leola (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
2. Dream and Response (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
3. For Lester B (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
4. Jamaica Farewell (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
5. Hop Hip Bip Bir Rip (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
6. Nine to Get Ready (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
7. Bessie Harris (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
8. Fallen Heroes (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
9. Move Toward the Light (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
10. Big Red Peaches (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)

XII Composition / Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3

1. I (von Roscoe Mitchell)
2. II (von Roscoe Mitchell)
3. III (von Roscoe Mitchell)
4. IV (von Roscoe Mitchell)
5. V (von Roscoe Mitchell)
6. VI (von Roscoe Mitchell)
7. VII (von Roscoe Mitchell)
8. VIII (von Roscoe Mitchell)
9. IX (von Roscoe Mitchell)

XIII Boustrophedon (In Six Furrows)

1. Overture (von Evan Parker, Transatlantic Art Ensemble)
2. Furrow 1 (von Evan Parker, Transatlantic Art Ensemble)
3. Furrow 2 (von Evan Parker, Transatlantic Art Ensemble)
4. Furrow 3 (von Evan Parker, Transatlantic Art Ensemble)
5. Furrow 4 (von Evan Parker, Transatlantic Art Ensemble)
6. Furrow 5 (von Evan Parker, Transatlantic Art Ensemble)
7. Furrow 6 (von Evan Parker, Transatlantic Art Ensemble)
8. Final e (von Evan Parker, Transatlantic Art Ensemble)

XIV Far Side

1. Far Side / Cards / Far Side (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
2. Quintet 2007 A for Eight (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
3. Trio Four for Eight (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)
4. Ex Flover Five (von Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory)

XV Bells for the South Side

1. Spatial Aspects of the Sound (von Roscoe Mitchell)
2. Panoply (von Roscoe Mitchell)
3. Prelude to a Rose (von Roscoe Mitchell)
4. Dancing in the Canyon (von Roscoe Mitchell)
5. EP 7849 (von Roscoe Mitchell)
6. Bells for the South Side (von Roscoe Mitchell)

XV Bells for the South Side

1. Prelude to the Card Game, Cards for Drums, and the Final Hand (von Roscoe Mitchell)
2. The Last Chord (von Roscoe Mitchell)
3. Six Gongs and Two Woodblocks (von Roscoe Mitchell)
4. R509A Twenty B (von Roscoe Mitchell)
5. Red Moon in the Sky / Odwalla (von Roscoe Mitchell)

XVI New Directions

1. Bayou Fever (von Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez, John Abercrombie, Lester Bowie)
2. Where or Wayne (von Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez, John Abercrombie, Lester Bowie)
3. Dream Stalker (von Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez, John Abercrombie, Lester Bowie)
4. One Handed Woman (von Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez, John Abercrombie, Lester Bowie)
5. Silver Hollow (von Jack DeJohnette, Eddie Gomez, John Abercrombie, Lester Bowie)

XVII New Directions in Europe

1. Salsa for Eddie G. (von Jack DeJohnette)
2. Where or Wayne (von Jack DeJohnette)
3. Bayou Fever (von Jack DeJohnette)
4. Multo Spiliagio (von Jack DeJohnette)

XVIII Made in Chicago - Live at the Chicago Festival

1. Chant (von Jack DeJohnette)
2. Jack 5 (von Jack DeJohnette)
3. This (von Jack DeJohnette)
4. Museum of Time (von Jack DeJohnette)
5. Leave Don't Go Away (von Jack DeJohnette)
6. Announcement (von Jack DeJohnette)
7. Ten Minutes (von Jack DeJohnette)

1. Hail We Now Sing Joy
2. It’s the Sign of the Times
3. Tech Ritter and the Megabytes
4. Wind and Drum
5. The Meeting
6. Amin Bidness
7. The Train to Io

1. Tutankhamun
2. The Ninth Room
3. That the Evening the Sky Fell Through the Glass Wall and We Stood Alone Somewhere?

1. Toro
2. Lori Song
3. Tthinitthedalen, Part One
4. Tthinitthedalen, Part Two
5. The Spiritual

1. Leola
2. Introduction to Cards
3. Cards
4. Improvisation One
5. Ritual “Great Black Music”
6. Kumpa
7. Stormy Weather
8. New Coming
9. Jigiba
10. I Feel Like Dancing
11. Bulawayo Korokokoko

1. We Are on the Edge
2. Variations and Sketches From the Bamboo Terrace
3. I Greet You With Open Arms
4. Funky Aeco
5. Odwalla
6. Improvisation Two