People in Sorrow

People in Sorrow is a 1969 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in Boulogne for the French Pathé-Marconi label, later reissued in the US on Nessa Records.[1][2] It features an extended improvised performance by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell and Malachi Favors Maghostut.

People in Sorrow
Studio album by
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Released1969
RecordedJuly 7, 1969
GenreJazz
Length40:10
LabelPathé-Marconi
Art Ensemble of Chicago chronology
The Spiritual
(1969)		 People in Sorrow
(1969)		 Message to Our Folks
(1969)

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "The still-startling music, which uses space, dynamics, and a wide range of emotions expertly, is not for everyone's taste (the high-energy tenors of the mid-1960s are actually easier to get into), but worth the struggle".[3] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide said "their masterpiece, People in Sorrow, a forty-minute example of how the group's menagerie of instruments and spontaneous approach to structure can create clearly delineated precisely shaded and starkly emotional music".[4]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]

Track listing
  1. "People In Sorrow Part 1" - 17:05
  2. "People In Sorrow Part 2" - 23:05
All compositions by the Art Ensemble of Chicago
  • Recorded July 7, 1969 in Boulogne, Paris

Personnel

References
  1. Art Ensemble of Chicago discography accessed 22, July, 2009
  2. Jazzlists: Art Ensemble Of Chicago discography, accessed November 26, 2017
  3. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed 19 July 2009
  4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 14. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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