This product page has been included only to show the amount of works that have been recorded and produced by AACM members over
the course of more than 50 years. The list is not final or actual as members continue to compose and record when and where possible.
Recordings by Muhal Richard
Muhal Richard Abrams: Various:Critics´ Picks, Vol. 1 - Black Saint BSSNCC001
Muhal Richard Abrams: Various: Critics´ Picks, Vol. 2 - Black Saint BSSNCC002
Muhal Richard Abrams: Song for All - Black Saint BS120161
Muhal Richard Abrams: Think All, Focus One - Black Saint BS120141
Muhal Richard Abrams / Roscoe Mitchell: Duets and Solos - Black Saint BS120133
Muhal Richard Abrams: Familytalk - Black Saint BS120132
Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra: Blu Blu Blu - Black Saint BS120117
Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra: Hearinga Suite - Black Saint BS120103
Muhal Richard Abrams: Colors in Thirty-Third - Black Saint BS120091
Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra: Rejoicing with the Light - Black Saint BS120071
Muhal Richard Abrams Band: Blues Forever - Black Saint BS120061
Muhal Richard Abrams / Amina Claudine Myers: Duets - Black Saint BS120051
Muhal Richard Abrams Tentet: Mama and Daddy - Black Saint BS120041
Leroy Jenkins / Muhal Richard Abrams: Lifelong Ambitions - Black Saint BS120033
Muhal Richard Abrams Septet: Spihumonesty - Black Saint BS120032
Muhal Richard Abrams Quintet: 1-OQA+19 - Black Saint BS120017
Muhal Richard Abrams/Malachi Favors: Sightsong - Black Saint BS120003
Levels and Degrees of Light - Delmark DS413
Things to Come from Those Now Gone - Delmark DS-430
Young at Heart, Wise in Time - Delmark DS-423
Afrisong - Whynot 32ED5019
Lifea Blinec - Arista Novus AN 3000
One Line, Two Views - New World 80469-2
Roots of Blue - RPR 1001 featuring Cecil McBee
Spiral - Arista Novus AN3007
Umo Plays the Music of Muhal Richard Abrams - UMO Records
The Visibility of Thought - Mutable Music 17502
Compositional works:
Transversion I OP. 6 for symphony orchestra, performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at
the Unisys Corporation Classical Roots series in Detroit, Michigan
" NOVI " for symphony orchestra and jazz quartet
Variations for Solo Saxophone, Flute and Chamber Orchestra, commissioned by the city of Chicago
for the New Music of America Festival, 1982
Quintet for Voice (Soprano), Piano,Harp,Cello and Violin, commissioned by the Kitchen, performed at
Symphony Space, April 1982
Improvisation Structures I - II - III - IV - V - VI, performed in a series of six solo piano concerts
for the 1983 New York State New Music Network Tour
"Trio" A three part composition for solo piano , performed at the New Music America Festival in 1984 in
Hartford, Conn. July, 1984 and hosted by Real Artways.
Odyssey of King, performed by The Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra at Brooklyn's Botanical Garden,
February, 1984 and "Celebrate Brooklyn" at the Prospect Park Bandshell, Brooklyn, New York on June 23, 1984.
String Quartet #2, performed by The Kronos String Quartet on November 22, 1985 at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City.
Piano Duet # 1 performed by Ursula Oppens and Frederic Rzewski for Music at the Crossroads on
February 11, 1986, and sponsored by the Phillip Morris Co., at the Whitney Museum.
Saturation Blue performed on March 14, 1986, by The Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra Chamber
Ensemble at Freeport High School, Freeport, N.Y., Tania Leon , conductor.
Folk Tales "88" commissioned by The Brooklyn Philharmonic and performed by The Brooklyn Philharmonic
Orchestra at Fort Hamilton Base, Brooklyn, N.Y. on July 9, 1988, Tania Leon, conductor.
"What a Man"commissioned for the Black Repertory Ensemble by The Center for Black Music Research ,
Columbia College and the Friends of the Chicago Public Library in honor of the late Mayor Harold Washington
and to commemorate the opening of The Harold Washington Library on October 7, 1991.
Duet For Contrabass and Piano
Duet for Violin and Piano
Baritone Voice and String Quartet
The Visibility of Thought (Electronic Composition)
String Quartet III
Saxophone Quartet I
New Horizons
Recordings by Henry -Threadgill
Air Mail - Black Saint BS120049
New Air: Live at Montreal International Jazz Festival - Black Saint BS120084
Live Air - Black Saint BS120034
So Hot ... Could See Jenkins Boys - Black Saint
New Air: Air Show Number 1 - Black Saint BS120099
Henry Threadgill´s Very Very Circus: Spirit of Nuff Nuff - Black Saint BS120134
Henry Threadgill´s Very Very Circus: Songs Out of my Trees - Black Saint BS120154
X-75: Volume I - Arista/Novus AN3013
Air Lore - Arista/Novus AN3014
Open Air Suit - Arista/Novus AN3002
Montreux Suisse Air - Arista/Novus AN 3008
When Was That - About Time At 1004
Just The Facts and Pass the Bucket - About Time AT 1005
Subject to Change - About Time AT1007
Air Time - Nessa N12
Air Song - Why Not PA - 7120
Air Raid - Why Not
USO Dance - Douglas/Casablanca
80^ Below 82 - Island/Antilles
Henry Threadgill Sextett: You Know The Number - RCA/Novus
Henry Threadgill Sextet: Easily Slip Into Another World - RCA/Novus
Henry Threadgill Sextett: Rag Bush and All - BMG/Novus
Henry Threadgill´s Very Very Circus: Too Much Sugar For a Dime - Axiom/Island
Henry Threadgill´s Very Very Circus: Carry The Day - Sony/Columbia
Recordings by Roscoe -Mitchell:
Sound - Delmark DE-408, 1966
The Roscoe Mitchell Solo Saxophone Concerts - Sackville 1974
The Roscoe Mitchell Quartet - Sackville 1975
Old/Quartet - Nessa N5, 1975 recorded 1967
Nonaah - Nessa N 9/10, 2 LP´s, 1977
L-R-G/The Maze/S II Examples - Nessa N14/15, 2 LP´s, 1978 with Anthony Braxton
Duets With Anthony Braxton (Sackville 1978)
Congliptious - Nessa N2, 1978
Roscoe Mitchell - Chief 1979
Sketches From Bamboo - Moers 1979
with Tom Buckner, Gerald Oshita - New Music For Woodwinds and Voice (1981)
3x4 Eye - Black Saint BS120050, 1981
More Cutouts - Cecma 1981
Snurdy McGurdy And Her Dancin' Shoes - Nessa 1981
Concert Toronto 4/5 October 1975 - Sackville 1981
with Space An Interesting Breakfast Conversation (1984)
Roscoe Mitchell And The Sound And Space Ensembles - Black Saint BS120070, 1984
Live At The Muhle Hunziken (1986)
The Flow Of Things - Black Saint BS120090, 1987
Four Compositions - (1987)
Live In Detroit - (1989)
Songs In The Wind - (Victo) 1990
with Brus Trio - After Fallen Leaves 1989 recording (Silkheart 1992)
Live At The Knitting Factory 1987 recording - Black Saint BS120120, 1992
with Muhal Richard Abrams - Solos And Duets At Merkin Hall (Black Saint 1992)
Sound And Space Ensembles - Blue Star 1993
This Dance Is For Steve McCall - Black Saint BS120150 1993
Pilgrimage - Lovely Music c.1995
Hey Donald - Delmark DE-475, 1995
The Day And The Night - Dizim 1998
In Walked Buckner - Delmark DE-510, 1998
Compositonal works:
Fallen Heroes, a work for Orchestra, Baritone Voice, and Solo Alto Saxophone premiered May 20, 1998
by the Petr Kotik SEM Ensemble at New York City's Alice Tully Hall.
The Bells of Fifty Ninth Street, a work for Alto Saxophone and Gamelan Orchestra premiered 1999 in
Gent, Belgium; Essen, Germany and s-Hertogenbosch, Nederlands.
Non-Cognitive Aspects of theCity, a composition for Baritone Voice and Orchestra, with text by
Joseph Jarman premiered in New York and the Czech Republic in 2003.
Recordings by Anthony Braxton:
Three Compositions of New Jazz - Delmark DS 423
Live at Moers Festival - Moers 01002
In The Tradition - Steeplechase 1015
In The Tradition - Steeplechase 1045
Dortmund (Quartet) 1976 - hat Art 6075
Performance (Quartet) 1979 - hat Art 6044
Composition 99, 101, 107, and 138 - hat Art 6019
Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983 - Black Saint BSR 0066
Composition 113 - sound aspects 003
Four Compositions (Quartet) 1984 - Black Saint BSR 0086
Quartet (London) 1985 - Leo LR 200/201
Quartet (Birmingham) 1985 - Leo LR 202/203
Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 - Black Saint BSR 0106
Six Monk's Compositions (1987) - Black Saint 120 116
19 (Solo) Compositions 1988 - New Albion Records NA023
London (Solo) 1988 - Impetus IMP 18818
Kol Nidre - sound aspects SAS 031
Composition No. 165 [for 18 instruments] - New Albion Records NA050
Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989 - hat Art CD 6025
Eight (+3) Tristano Compositions 1989 - hat Art 6052
Eugene (1989) - Black Saint 120137
Recordings by Amina - Claudine Myers:
Amina Claudine Myers Salutes Bessie Smith - Leo 1980
The Circle Of Time - Black Saint BS120078, 1982
Jumping In The Sugar Bowl - Minor Music 1984
Country Girl - Minor Music 1986
Live in Bremen - Music Moderne 1988
Amina - RCA 1990
In Touch - BMG/Novus 1991 with Lester Bowie`s NY Organ Ensemble Disc Union 1991
The Lapislazuli Band - ENJA 1998 with Ray Anderson
Poems for Piano - Sweet Earth 105
Women in [E] Motion, Tradition & Moderne, 2004
Compositional works:
I Dream - A contemporary musical
Occasional Grace - A theater piece
The Ladder - A theater piece
When The Berries Fell - Composition for a eleven piece ensemble ( 8 voices, two percussion, piano and organ )
Focus - Mixed media performance for piano, voice, contrabass and slides.
ABA - Music for violin and piano
Interior - For chamber orchestra and string quartet
Recordings by Lester -Bowie:
Number 1 & 2 - 1967
Gittin´to Know You - 1969
Fast Last - 1974
Rope -A- Dope - 1975
The 5th Power - 1978
African Children - 1978
Duets with Phillip Wilson - 1978
Esoteric
The Great Pretender - 1981
All the Magic - 1982
Serious Fun - 1989
My way - Brass Fantasy - 1990
Hello Dolly - 1992
Odyssey of Funk and Popular Music, Vol. 1 - 1999
When the Spirit Returns
Twilight Dreams- Brass Fantasy
Recordings by Leroy -Jenkins:
With the Revolutionary Ensemble:
Revolutionary Ensemble - Enja 1978
The People's Republic - A&M Horizon 1975
The Psyche - RE 1975
Manhattan Cycles - India Navigation 1023, 1972
Vietnam I&II - ESP 1972 - Reissued 1993
With The Creative Construction Company: Volumes 1 & 2 - Muse 1975/76
Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America - Tomato, TOM-8001, 1979
Themes and Improvisations on the Blues - Composers Recordings, Inc.
eXchange Series CRI CD663, 1994
Dream of Dreams of Home, on Sign of the Times - Lovely Music, Ltd. CD 3022, 1994
Leroy Jenkins Live! - Black Saint, 1993
The Legend of Ai Glatson - Black Saint
Mixed Quintet - Black Saint
Urban Blues - Black Saint
For Players Only - JCOA Records (LP)
Swift are the Winds of Life, with Rashied Ali - Survival (LP)
Solo Concert - India Navigation 1028, (LP)
Solo - Lovely Music (1998)
Themes & Improvisations on the Blues - CRI (1994)
Urban Blues with Leroy Jenkins' Sting! - Black Saint (1984)
Mixed Quintet - Black Saint (1983 - Reissued 1997)
Lifelong Ambitions with Muhal Richard Abrams - Black Saint (1981 - Reissued 1993)
Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America - Tomato (1979 - Reissued 1989)
Straight Ahead/Free At Last with Abdul Wadud - Red (1979)
The Legend of Ai Glatson - Black Saint (1978 - Reissued 1993)
Solo Concert - India Navigation (1977)
For Players Only - JCOA (1975)
Swift Are The Winds of Life with Rashied Ali - Survival (1975 - Reissued 2000)
Lifelong Ambitions, featuring Muhal Richard Abrams, Black Saint
With Cecil Taylor: Live In Bologna - Leo (1988)
Straight Ahead/Free at Last, with Abdul Wadud, Red Records
Compositional works:
Mother Of Three Sons, an opera/ballet commissioned by Hans Werner Henze in 1989
for the Munich Bienale New Music Theater Festival.
Recordings by Wadada Leo Smith:
Geechie Recollections - Impulse AS-92672
Go in Numbers - Black Saint 120053-2
The Mass on the World - Moers Music 0106
Budding of a Rose - Moers Music 02026
To Break the Shells - FMP 0920
The Sky Cries the Blues - CMF F-1
Solo Music:Akhreanvention - Kabell 4
Procession of the Great Ancestry - Chief CD
Divine Love - ECM 1143
Rastafari - Sackvill 3030
Spirit Catcher - Nessa N-19
Creative Music 1 - Kabell 1
Reflectivity - Kabell 2
Song of Humanity - Kabell 3
Human Rights - Kabell/Gramm 24
Cosmos Has Spirit - Scissors 001
Kulture Jazz - ECM 1507
Tao-Njia - Tzadik 7-017
Golden Hearts Remembrance - Chap Chap 002
Yo Miles! - Shanachie 5046
Light Upon Light - Tzadic TZ 7046
Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - Tzadic TZ 7604
Reflectativity - Tzadic TZ 7060
Dreams and Secrets - anonym records ANON 0101
Recordings by Chico Freeman:
Morning Prayer - India Navigation 1976
Chico - India Navigation 1031, 1977
No Time Left - Black Saint BS120036, 1977
Beyond The Rain - Contemporary 1978
Kings Of Mali - India Navigation 1035, 1978
Spirit Sensitive - India Navigation 1045, 1979
Peaceful Heart/Gentle Spirit - Contemporary 1980
The Outside Within - India Navigation 1042, 1981
Still Sensitive - India Navigation 1072
The Search - India Navigation 1059, 1981
Destiny's Dance - Contemporary 1981
Tradition In Transition - Electra/Musician 1982
Tangents - Electra/Musician 1984
Live At Ronnie Scotts - Wadham Films/London 1986
The Pied Piper - Blackhawk 1987
Tales of Ellington - Blackhawk 1987
Luminous - Jazz House 1988
You'll Know When You Get There - Black Saint BS120128, 1990
Sweet Explosion (Brainstorm) - In & Out Records 1990
Threshold (Brainstorm) - In & Out Records 1993
The Unspoken Word - Jazz House 1994
Focus - Fantasy/Contemporary 1995
Live at Visiones - TBA TBA
Recordings by Iqua Colson and Adegoke Steve Colson:
Triumph! - Silver Sphinx SS01
No Reservation - Black Saint BSR 0043
Hope for Love - Silver Sphinx SS12402
Untarnished Dream - Silver Sphinx SS12403
Freedom Rhythm & Sound - Revolutionary Jazz and The Civil Rights Movement” - Soul Jazz Records SUR CD 219
Triumph! (re-issue From Soul Jazz / London) - Universal Sound US CD40
Recordings by Adegoke Steve Colson:
Tones For ...Harriett Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglas Solo Piano Silver Sphinx SS12404
New Life with David Murray Octet - Black Saint BSR 0100
My Friend Louis with Andrew Cyrille - Disk Union DIW 858
African Love Supreme with Andrew Cyrille - Venus Jazz TKCZ279098
Ode to the Living Tree with Andrew Cyrille - Evidence ECD 22185-2
Door of the Cage with Baikida Carroll - Soul Note 121123-2
Marionettes on a High Wire with Baikida Carroll - Omni Tone 12101
Conduction Collection -#25,26 with Lawrence "Butch Morris" - New World/Cross Currents 80478
Bright Moments - Return of the Lost Tribe with Kahil El'Zabar, Malachi Favors and Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre - Delmark DE-507
Music for My Love Ones with Kevin Cook - Artistic Soundz ASE0001
Encounter - Trio Three ( Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman)
featuring A.S. Colson composition "Leaving East Of Java" - Passin' Thru 41212
Now's the Time New York Unit (Hannibal Marvin Peterson, Richard Davis, John Hicks, Tatsuya Nakamura)
featuring A.S. Colson composition "South of the Border Serenade" - King Records KICJ 108
One With the Wind - Hannibal Marvin Peterson featuring A.S. Colson composition "Glow" Muse MCD 5523
Select Compositional Works:
“...as in a Cultural Reminiscence...” for orchestra, narration, voices (Book I)
1.“...as in a Cultural Reminiscence...” for orchestra, narration, voices (Book II) with Amiri Baraka and Richard Wesley
2. Lost Jazz Shrines - Orchestrated, arranged and conducted five works of Willie “The Lion” Smith for
national celebration (Echo of Spring, Morning Air, Passionette, Rippling Waters, Sneak Away)
Performed as part of play by Amiri Baraka, Visuals by Willie Cole
3. Music for Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, by Djanet Sears, Directed by Kym Moore,
with a cast including the legendary Carmen de Lavallade
4. Oblique (Quartet: for saxophones or strings)
5. Osiris in the Land of Spirits (nine piece musical theatre work: narration, martial arts)
6. Fissions (10 piece composition)
7. Greens, Rice, and a Rope for orchestra, voice, dance, visuals:
Book I: Prelude - Death in the Land - Love’s Brief Interlude - Death in the Land - Postlude
Book II: Midwest Passage - A Place of Sorrows - Work - Spirit - Raggin’ Nu Rags (free?)
Book III: Swingstyle - a flashback - Advent
8. Kiss of Flame-Martin, Father Martin (orchestra)
Recordings by Thurman -Barker:
Voyage - Uptee Productions, 1001
Time Factor - Uptee Productions, 1004
The Way I Hear It - Uptee Productions
Strike Force - Uptee Productions
Compositonal works:
1. Dialogue
2. Expansions, premiered by the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, May 1999
3. Time Facto, premiered by the Woodstock chamber orchestra, October 2000
Recordings by John Stubblefield:
Confessin´- Soul Note SN 1095
Morning Song - Enja ENJ -8036
Countin´on the Blues - Enja ENJ -5051
Bushman Song - Enja ENJ -5015
Recordings by Joseph Jarman:
Black Paladins - Black Saint BS 120042-2
Earth Passage/Density - Black Saint
As If It Were the Seasons - Delmark 1968
Together Alone - Delmark 1971
Song For - Delmark 1966
Calypos´s Smile - Southport Records 1984
Out of the Mist - Ocean Records 1997
Connecting Spirits - Music and Arts Program 1996
Egwu -Anwu - 1978
Inheritance
Recordings by Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre:
Humility in the Light of the Creator (Delmark Records, 1969)
Forces and Feelings (Delmark, 1970)
Peace and Blessings (Black Saint Records, 1979)
Ram's Run (Cadence Jazz, 1981)
Dream Of... (CIMP, 1998)
South Eastern (CIMP, 2002)
The Moment (Entropy Stereo, 2003)
Morning Song (Delmark, 2004)
Paths to Glory (CIMP, 2004)
Extremes (CIMP, 2008)
Recordings by Reggie Nicholson:
Unnecessary Noise Allowed - Abstract Recordings 001 1997
Percussion Peace - Abstract Recordings 002 2005
Timbre Suite - Abstract Recording 03 2008
Surreal Feel- Abstract Recording 2009
No Preservatives Added- Abstract Recording 2021
Recordings by George Lewis:
George Lewis, Solo Trombone Record - Sackville 3012 1977
George Lewis, Voyager - Disk Union-Avan CD 014 1992
George Lewis, Endless Shout - Tzadik TZ CD 7054 2000
George Lewis and the Now Orchestra -The Shadowgraph Series: Compositions for Creative Orchestra 2001
George Lewis, Swquel - Two In One, Intakt CD 111
George Lewis & Spitter Orchestra, Creative Construction Set - Miktron CD 50|2016
George Lewis, The Will To Adorn - Tundra tun005
Recordings by Leonard Jones:
Dialogues -Improvisations for One Bass -Jazzsick Records 9001JSAV