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Saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell and Joseph Jarman, and bassist Malachi Favors were founding members of the AACM; trumpeter Lester Bowie joined when he came to Chicago shortly afterward. These four players became the Art Ensemble of Chicago. The original name was the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble, but the group's musical philosophy was deeply influenced by the collective ideal of the AACM, and when they went to Europe in 1969 they adopted a name that more accurately suggests the active role each member takes in the AEC's music. With the addition of percussionist Don Moye...
Probably the most immediately striking element of the Art Ensemble's music is their use of multi-instrumentalist. It is not unusual to see a jazz saxophonist double on flute or clarinet, but Joseph Jarman works beside a rack of no fewer than eleven woodwind instruments, ranging from a wooden flute and tiny sopranino saxophone to a bass clarinet. One hallmark of AACM artists is a fascination with interesting and unusual juxtapositions of instruments, and in the AEC this interest is taken to an extreme. What is even more striking than the sheer multiplicity of instruments is the sensitivity...
Numbers Man. Franklin seems to have fallen victim to his own attempts to bring more scientific management to the diverse, largely fashion-oriented (Henri Bendel, Bonwit Teller) business. Jarman, a numbers man who carries an elaborate pocket calculator, lopped off several divisions, including San Remo men's suits and I. Miller women's shoes, and slashed 10,000 employees from the payroll. The surgery alienated the heads of many of Genesco's 78 operating divisions, who resented Jarman's lack of merchandising expertise. Some grumbled that Jarman "ran a fashion business as though it were...
...while, however, Jarman's ap proach seemed to work: in the fiscal year that ended last July, Genesco recorded a $16 million profit, v. a loss of $14.4 million the year before. But as staff morale plummeted and consumer spending flattened out, profits turned downward again and Genesco's creditors became worried about their loans (the company had to refinance $70 million in debt that fell due in November). Stockholders bridled when Jarman announced at the annual meeting in December that Genesco would pay them no dividends before 1978. Common shareholders have received nothing since 1973, and Genesco...
Management discontent and investor distrust came together over the New Year's weekend. Jarman's immediate subordinates, Chief Operations Officer Ralph Bowles and Chief Administrative Officer Larry Shelton, both board members, met with four outside directors -including two associated with institutions that have lent money to Genesco -at the Nashville home of Director David K. Wilson on Sunday night, Jan. 2. The six issued a call to the full board to meet in special session the next day at Genesco's Nashville headquarters. In a session that lasted more than ten hours, the board voted to strip...