BIOGRAPHY:

Roscoe Mitchell

is an African-American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator

born August 3, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois

mostly known for being “a technically superb – if idiosyncratic – saxophonist.”The Penguin Guide to Jazz described him as “one of the key figures” in avant-garde jazz; All About Jazz states that he has been “at the forefront of modern music” for the past 35 years

Involved in György Szabados "Body of Work":

Member of

GSDA1996F  audio info liner_notes  1996: Jelenés (Revelation)

2008, 13 Sept. planed concert with Roscoe Mitchell Quartet, live at Jazz, Improvisative Music Festival in Magyarkanizsa, Serbia – concert was canceled becaus of health issue of Mr. Szabados
  Poster of the planed concert

LIST OF WORKS:

Discography

with Art Ensemble of Chicago

Title Year Label
Sound – Roscoe Mitchell Sextet 1966 Delmark
Old/Quartet – Roscoe Mitchell 1967 Nessa
Numbers 1 & 2 – Lester Bowie 1967 Nessa
Early Combinations – Art Ensemble 1967 Nessa
Congliptious – Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble 1968 Nessa
A Jackson in Your House 1969 Actuel
Tutankhamun 1969 Freedom
The Spiritual 1969 Freedom
People in Sorrow 1969 Pathé-Marconi
Message to Our Folks 1969 Actuel
Reese and the Smooth Ones 1969 Actuel
Eda Wobu 1969 JMY
Certain Blacks 1970 America
Go Home 1970 Galloway
Chi-Congo 1970 Paula
Les Stances a Sophie 1970 Pathé-Marconi
Live in Paris 1970 Freedom
Art Ensemble of Chicago with Fontella Bass 1970 America
Phase One 1971 America
Live at Mandell Hall 1972 Delmark
Bap-Tizum 1972 Atlantic
Fanfare for the Warriors 1973 Atlantic
Kabalaba 1974 AECO
Nice Guys 1978 ECM
Live in Berlin 1979 West Wind
Full Force 1980 ECM
Urban Bushmen 1980 ECM
Among the People 1980 Praxis
The Complete Live in Japan 1984 DIW
The Third Decade 1984 ECM
Naked 1986 DIW
Ancient to the Future 1987 DIW
The Alternate Express 1989 DIW
Art Ensemble of Soweto 1990 DIW
America – South Africa 1990 DIW
Thelonious Sphere Monk with Cecil Taylor 1990 DIW
Dreaming of the Masters Suite 1990 DIW
Live at the 6th Tokyo Music Joy with Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy 1991 DIW
Fundamental Destiny with Don Pullen 1991 AECO
Salutes the Chicago Blues Tradition 1993 AECO
Coming Home Jamaica 1996 Atlantic
Urban Magic 1997 Musica Jazz
Tribute to Lester 2001 ECM
Reunion 2003 Around Jazz
The Meeting 2003 Pi Recordings
Sirius Calling 2004 Pi Recordings
Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City 2006 Pi Recordings

Solo works and other ensembles

1965 Before There Was Sound — Nessa (issued 2011)

1974 Solo Saxophone Concerts — Sackville

1976 Roscoe Mitchell Quartet — Sackville

1976 Nonaah — Nessa

1977 Duets with Anthony Braxton — Sackville

1978 L-R-G / The Maze / S II Examples – Nessa

1979 Sketches From Bamboo — Moers

1981 Snurdy McGurdy and Her Dancin’ Shoes — Nessa

1981 3 x 4 EyeBlack Saint

1981 More Cutouts — Cecma

1983 Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound and Space Ensembles — Black Saint

1984 An Interesting Breakfast Conversation — 1750 Arch

1986 The Flow of Things — Black Saint

1986 Live at the Muhle Hunziken — Cecma Records

1987 Live at the Knitting Factory — Black Saint

1987 Four Compositions — Lovely Music

1988 Live in Detroit — Cecma

1991 Songs in the Wind — Victo Records

1992 After Fallen LeavesSilkheart Records

1993 Duets & Solos — Black Saint

1993 This Dance Is for Steve McCall — Black Saint

1995 Hey Donald — Delmark

1995 First Meeting — Knitting Factory

1995 Pilgrimage — Lovely Music

1997 Sound Songs — Delmark

1997 Day and the Night — Dizim

1999 Nine to Get ReadyECM

1999 In Walked Buckner — Delmark

2001 8 O’Clock: Two Improvisations — Mutable Music

2002 Song for My Sister — Pi Recordings

2003 The Bad Guys — Around Jazz

2004 Solo 3 — Mutable

2005 First Look, Chicago Duos — Southport

2005 Turn — RogueArt

2006 No Side Effects — RogueArt

2007 Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 with Evan Parker (ECM)

2009 The Solo Concert – AECO [composed of solo performances from many concerts performed in the 1970s.]

2009 ContactRogueArt Roscoe Mitchell & David Wessel

2010 Spectrum – Mutablemusic

2010 Far Side – with The Note Factory (ECM)

2011 NumbersRogueArt

2012 Three Compositions – with Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble (Rogueart)

2013 Duets with Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin

2013 Improvisations (Oto) – with Tony Marsh and John Edwards

2014 Conversations I & II (Wide Hive) – with Craig Taborn and Kikanju Baku

2014 Angel City (RogueArt) – Roscoe Mitchell Trio with James Fei & William Winant

As sideman

With Anthony Braxton

Creative Orchestra Music 1976 (Arista, 1976)

For Trio (Arista, 1978)

With Matthew Shipp

2-Z (2.13.61, 1996)

With Evan Parker

Boustrophedon (ECM, 2004)

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