Bap-Tizum

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Bap-Tizum
Live album by
Released1973
RecordedSeptember 9, 1972
VenueAnn Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival, Otis Spann Memorial Field, Ann Arbor, MI
GenreJazz
Length45:18
LabelAtlantic
SD 1639
ProducerTunç Erim, Jimmy Douglass
Art Ensemble of Chicago chronology
Live at Mandell Hall

(1972)
Bap-Tizum
(1973)
Fanfare for the Warriors
(1973)

Bap-Tizum is a 1972

Malachi Favors Maghostut and Don Moye
.

Reception

Rolling Stone's Bob Palmer wrote "Bap-Tizum features dozens of instruments (all the saxophones from soprano to bass, tempered and non-tepered percussion, etc.) and sequences of colours and moods which range from energy-raising to reflection to explosive anger to sheer soul strutting... The performance gassed ten thousand people, most of whom had never heard of the group, and Atlantic is to be commended for releasing it in all its rough hard-edged grandeur."[5]

The

Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 5 stars noting that "the Art Ensemble holds back nothing in a chaotic, meandering, exasperating, outrageous -- and, thus, always fascinating -- performance".[6]

Critic Michael G. Nastos calls the album "essential".[7] Author Rafi Zabor describes the album as a "riotous" real-life analogue to his depiction of a fictional, tumultuous Art Ensemble performance in The Bear Comes Home.[8]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
[6]
Christgau's Record GuideC−[9]
Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.)()

Track listing

  1. "Nfamoudou-Boudougou" (Moye) - 4:16
  2. "Immm" (Favors) - 5:31
  3. "Unanka" (Mitchell) - 10:44
  4. "Oouffnoon" (Mitchell) - 3:25
  5. "Ohnedaruth" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 15:00
  6. "Odwalla" (Mitchell) - 5:42
  • Recorded September 9, 1972 at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival, Michigan

Personnel

  • Lester Bowie: trumpet, percussion instruments
  • Malachi Favors Maghostut
    : bass, percussion instruments, vocals
  • Joseph Jarman: saxophones, clarinets, percussion instruments
  • Roscoe Mitchell: saxophones, clarinets, flute, percussion instruments
  • Don Moye: drums, percussion

References