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Nice Guys (album)
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Allmusic [2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.)
For the 2005 film of the same name, see Nice Guys theatrical jazz fundamentals, captured abundantly on
Nice Guys Nice Guys... the album reveals how the AEC managed to
turn individual compositions into a fully realized, sur-
prisingly accessible, avant garde group collective".[2]
Down Beat critic Art Lange writes that Nice Guys, while not
the Art Ensemble’s best album, "is possibly their most
representative, a variegated showcase illustrating much
of what they do best."[3]
Track listing
1. "JA" (Bowie) – 8:43
2. "Nice Guys" (Mitchell) – 1:45
3. "Folkus" (Moye) – 11:03
4. "597–59" (Jarman) – 6:46
Studio album by Art Ensemble of Chicago 5. "CYP" (Mitchell) – 4:53
6. "Dreaming of the Masters" (Jarman) – 11:40
Released 1978
• Recorded May 1978 in Ludwigsburg
Recorded May 1978; Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg
Genre Jazz Personnel
Label ECM • Lester Bowie: trumpet, celeste, bass drum
• Malachi Favors Maghostut: bass, percussion
Producer Manfred Eicher
instruments, melodica
Art Ensemble of Chicago chronology • Joseph Jarman: saxophones, clarinets, percussion
instruments, vocal
Kabalaba Nice Guys Live in Berlin
• Roscoe Mitchell: saxophones, clarinets, flute,
(1974) (1978) (1978)
percussion instruments
• Don Moye: drums, percussion, vocal
Nice Guys is a 1978 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago,
their first to appear on the ECM label. It features perfor-
mances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, References
Malachi Favors Maghostut and Don Moye.[1] [1] ECM Catalogue
[2] ^ Campbell, A. Allmusic Review accessed July 27,
Reception 2011.
[3] Lange, Art (1994), Wynn, Ron, ed., All Music Guide to
The Allmusic review by Al Campbell awarded the album Jazz, San Francisco: Miller Freeman, p. 48,
4½ stars noting that "Nice Guys was the first Art Ensemble ISBN 0879303085
of Chicago album released after a five-year recording hia-
tus and the group’s first for the ECM label. During those
five years, the Art Ensemble toured Europe and contin-
ued to expand its compositional, improvisational, and
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