Kabalaba is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by the Art Ensemble of Chicago

Art Ensemble of Chicago

The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz ensemble that grew out of Chicago's AACM in the late 1960s. The group continues to tour and record through 2006, despite the deaths of two of the founding members....

 recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious in Europe; it is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva...

 in 1974 and released on their AECO

AECO Records

-Discography:*AECO 001: Famoudou Don Moye - Sun Percussion Volume One*AECO 002: Joseph Jarman - Sunbound Volume One*AECO 003: Brother Malachi Favors Magoustous - Natural And The Spiritua*AECO 004: Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Kabalaba...

 label in 1978. It features performances by Lester Bowie

Lester Bowie

Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the AACM, and cofounded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Biography:...

, Joseph Jarman

Joseph Jarman

Joseph Jarman , is a jazz musician, composer and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He is perhaps best known as one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Early life:Jarman grew up in Chicago, Illinois...

, Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell

Roscoe Mitchell is an African American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb—if idiosyncratic—saxophonist." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past...

, Malachi Favors Maghostut, and Don Moye

Don Moye

Famoudou Don Moye, is an American jazz percussionist and drummer. He is most known for his involvement with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and is noted for his mastery of African and Caribbean percussion instruments and rhythmic techniques.- Early life and Detroit Free Jazz :Moye was born in...

 along with Muhal Richard Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams

Muhal Richard Abrams is an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the Free jazz medium. Abrams compresses both contemporary and traditional ideas into lean, elegant pieces.- Biography :Abrams attended DuSable High School in Chicago...

.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick states "This recording contains several fine episodes, but the interested listener would do better to hear [Fanfare for the Warriors

Fanfare for the Warriors

Fanfare for the Warriors is a 1973 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago first released on the Atlantic label. It features performances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors Maghostut and Don Moye along with AACM leader Muhal Richard Abrams.-Reception:The Allmusic review by...

] for a full picture of this particular Art Ensemble incarnation's great powers".

Track listing

1. "Kabalaba-Bees" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 3:10
2. "Interlude" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 2:00
3. "Kaba Song" (Don Moye) - 4:32
4. "Interlude" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 1:15
5. "Theme for Sco/Kabalaba" (Joseph Jarman) - 14:48
6. "Duo" (Muhal Richard Abrams) - 2:10
7. "Sun Precondition One" (Moye) - 5:30
8. "Interlude" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 1:48
9. "Improvization A2" (Roscoe Mitchell) - 6:00
10. "Mal's Delight" (Lester Bowie) - 3:50
11. "Kabalaba Speaks" (Art Ensemble of Chicago) - 4:57
    • Recorded July 4, 1974 at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Personnel

• Lester Bowie
  Lester Bowie
  Lester Bowie was an American jazz trumpet player and composer. He was a member of the AACM, and cofounded the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Biography:...
  
  : trumpet, percussion instruments
• Malachi Favors Maghostut: bass, percussion instruments, vocals
• Joseph Jarman
  Joseph Jarman
  Joseph Jarman , is a jazz musician, composer and Shinshu Buddhist priest. He is perhaps best known as one of the first members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.-Early life:Jarman grew up in Chicago, Illinois...
  
  : saxophones, clarinets, percussion instruments
• Roscoe Mitchell
  Roscoe Mitchell
  Roscoe Mitchell is an African American composer, jazz instrumentalist and educator, mostly known for being "a technically superb—if idiosyncratic—saxophonist." He has been called "one of the key figures" in avant-garde jazz who has been "at the forefront of modern music" for the past...
  
  : saxophones, clarinets, flute, percussion instruments
• Don Moye
  Don Moye
  Famoudou Don Moye, is an American jazz percussionist and drummer. He is most known for his involvement with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and is noted for his mastery of African and Caribbean percussion instruments and rhythmic techniques.- Early life and Detroit Free Jazz :Moye was born in...
  
  : drums, percussion
• Muhal Richard Abrams
  Muhal Richard Abrams
  Muhal Richard Abrams is an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the Free jazz medium. Abrams compresses both contemporary and traditional ideas into lean, elegant pieces.- Biography :Abrams attended DuSable High School in Chicago...
  
  : piano