I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

The band continued on despite the loss. After having been back in Chicago for three years Mitchell then establiRoscoe Mitchelld the Creative Arts Collective (CAC) in 1974 that had a similar musical aesthetic to the AACM. The album was "a departure from the more extroverted work of the New York-based free jazz players" due in part to the band recording with "unorthodox devices" such as toys and bicycle horns.

He continues "to be a major figure. Roscoe Mitchell (b. " He has even been called a "super musician" and the New York Times has mentioned that he "qualifies as an iconoclast.