But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.

The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Equal Interest
Shortly after his bandmates Clark and Gaddy died in 1969 Jarman joined Mitchell Maghostut and Lester Bowie (trumpet) in the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble in 1967; the group would be later rounded out with the addition of Don Moye on drums. This band eventually became known as the Art Ensemble of Chicago (AECO). The AACM and his solo band
After he was discharged from the army in 1958 Jarman attended Wilson Junior College where he met bassist Malachi Favors Maghostut and saxophonists Roscoe Mitchell Henry Threadgill and Anthony Braxton.

September 14 1937 in Pine Bluff Arkansas) is a jazz musician composer and Shinshu Buddhist priest. Joseph Jarman (b.