Chicago, IL — The DuSable Museum of African American History invites visitors attending the 36th annual Chicago Jazz Festival to make the museum their first stop to learn the back-story of AACM musicians performing at the Chicago Jazz Festival.
In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), DuSable Museum presents “Free at First: The Audacious Journey of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians,” an exhibition chronicling the work of one of the most important music collectives in the nation.
DuSable Museum is located at 740 E. 56th Place in Chicago. For more information on the museum and its programs, call 773-947-0600 or visit www.dusablemuseum.org.
The DuSable Museum is closed on Mondays. Admission is free on Sundays.
A number of members of the prominent music collective profiled in the exhibition will be featured at the Chicago Jazz Festival, including Douglas Ewart and Inventions on Saturday, September 5, Steve and Iqua Coulson on Sunday, September 6 and closing out the festival on Sunday, AACM co-founder Muhal Richard Abrams’ Experimental Band with Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Wadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Meyers, George Lewis, Leonard Jones, Thurman Barker, Reggie Nicholson and Wallace McMillan, all noted members of AACM.
The exhibition which opened earlier this year is scheduled to run through September 6, the closing day of the festival. A broad, wide-ranging exhibit lifting up the history of the AACM, it features over 80 items including historic and iconic photographs, a musical soundscape inclusive of AACM founders and the newest generation, a significant body of film and video, performance costumes, uniquely crafted awards of recognition, and performance posters from around the globe.
It also includes original instruments including an interactive installation piece by Douglas Ewart known as “StepHopThread Airbone” and the frankiphone which is modeled on the African mbira by AACM co-founder Kelan Phil Cohran. The exhibit is as expansive and far-reaching as the music that inspires it.
The AACM is internationally renowned for unparalleled contributions to modern music. Founded in Chicago on May 8, 1965 in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, the vanguard institution took its cue from the Movement to determine its own destiny.
The exhibition’s title is derived from the AACM’s audacity to compose, perform, publish, own, and institutionalize their own music and to prepare future exponents of their genre-bending, experimental form through the free AACM School of Music. For more information on the AACM, visit www.aacm.org
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