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It was as billed as “Dee Alexander’s Funkin’ With Electric Soul,” but this tribute to two of popular music’s most innovative visionaries—Jimi Hendrix and James Brown—could just as easily have been named (with a nod to Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) “Ancient to the Future: The Mission Continues.” In the past, the AACM has honored ancestors ranging from African griots through swing-era big band composers to post-Trane freedom-seekers. This time, vocalist Alexander, backed by a group she christened the Evolution Arkestra (players from several incarnations of her ongoing Evolution Ensemble, reunited for the occasion), kicked the Mothership into warp speed and brought it a few generations forward. Read more click link

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Dee Alexander s'inscrit dans la filiation de Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Diane Reeves ... Et qu'elle reprenne « Four Women » en dit long sur le fait qu'elle se revendique de la grande tradition des chanteuses noires américaines. Mais Dee Alexander est également inséparable d'Henri Huff, saxophoniste américain membre de l'AACM, dont elle reprend deux compositions, en particulier « You and I » qui est emblématique de cette musique tendre et narrative. Cette tendresse, c'est aussi une histoire personnelle car, lorsqu'elle parle d'Henri Huff, Dee Alexander est explicite : « Ça a été un tournant quand j'ai commencé à travailler avec lui ». À son mentor, décédé en 1993, elle dédie un très explicite « C U on the other side ». C'est précisément cette appétence pour une musique sentimentale qui ressort de ses concerts. Elle raconte, se raconte et porte ce vent sauvage avec une voix forte et émouvante. Et, pour narrer et partager ses émotions, elle met en scène sa voix et décline, à l'infini, les variations de son timbre.

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The Jazz Institute of Chicago was founded in 1969 by a small band of jazz fans, writers, club owners and musicians who came together to preserve the historical roots of the Chicago's music and to ensure that opportunities for the music to be heard would not be lost in a time when rock was subsuming cultural economics. Among the founding members were trad pianist Art Hodes, Muhal Richard Abrams, who a few years earlier had also co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), Harriett Choice, then music writer for the Chicago Tribune, Joe Segal, whose Jazz Showcase has kept the flame for bebop lit for 50 years, Bob Koester, owner of Delmark Records, Don DeMicheal, drummer and editor of Downbeat magazine, jazz promoter and supporter Penny Tyler and several other devoted souls. Click link for more information...

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Internationally renowned for unparalleled contributions to modern music, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Inc. (AACM) has been an inspirational leader within the cultural community since 1965. A non-profit organization chartered by the State of Illinois , the AACM is a collective of musicians and composers dedicated to nurturing, performing, and recording serious, original music. This collective of dynamic and visionary artists formed the AACM to meet their emergent needs to expose and showcase their original compositions and to create an outlet for the development and performance of their music.
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