Word: facepaint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These pilgrims came to see five smiling, intense black men wearing eyeglasses, facepaint, flowing third world costumes and smart white surgeon's coats; they came to listen to ancient yet modern music performed on a dazzling array of strange instruments. They were not disappointed...
...Ensemble, I can't possibly describe them," Louis Armstrong' said about "jazz", but then the Art Ensemble represents jazz in its most courageous and highly distilled form. Their playing reflects rigorous discipline in a context of almost total improvisational freedom, and the Art Ensemble's physical appearance--facepaint and costumes ranging from African to hardhat--makes them a "visual experience" in themselves. Probably the most important group in contemporary music, the Art Ensemble deserves to be heard and seen. For Boston Jazz Week information call...
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