Live at the 6th Tokyo Music Joy 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....

 and Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy

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:...

 recorded in February 1990 for the Japanese DIW

DIW Records

DIW Records is a Japanese record label. It is a subsidiary label of Disc Union and specializes in jazz and avant garde music. Kazunori Sugiyama was an executive producer for the label before starting Tzadik Records with John Zorn.-Discography:...

 label. It is the only recording to showcase both of the groups that Lester Bowie established and features performances by the Art Ensemble (tracks 1-3), the Brass Fantasy (tracks 4-6) and both bands (tracks 7-10).

Reception

The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz calls the album "A celebratory meeting but not a great one".

Track listing

1. "Yobu-Sun" (Moye) - 4:35
2. "Ride the Line" (Favors) - 3:57
3. "Song for Atala" (Mitchell) - 2:49
4. "Night Time (Is the Right Time)" (Herman) - 3:04
5. "Good Morning Heartache
   Good Morning Heartache
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   " (Drake
   Ervin Drake
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   , Fisher, Higgenbotham
   Irene Higgenbotham
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   ) - 8:34
6. "The Music of the Night" (Hart
   Charles Hart (lyricist)
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   , Lloyd Webber
   Andrew Lloyd Webber
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   , Stilgoe
   Richard Stilgoe
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   ) - 7:13
7. "The Emperor" (Turre) - 13:45
8. "Variations" (Mitchell) - 9:07
9. "A Jackson in Your House" (Mitchell) - 4:50
10. "The Great Pretender
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    " (Ram
    Buck Ram
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    ) - 3:10
    • Recorded live at the Tokyo Music Joy '90 at Showa Women's University Hitomi Memorial Hall, Tokyo, Japan on 14 February 1990

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
• Malachi Favors Maghostut: bass, percussion (tracks: 1-3 & 7-10)
• Roscoe Mitchell
  Roscoe Mitchell
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  : soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, clarinet, flute, percussion (tracks: 1-3 & 7-10)
• Joseph Jarman
  Joseph Jarman
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  : soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, synthesizer, clarinet, flute, percussion (tracks: 1-3 & 7-10)
• Famoudou Don Moye: drums, percussion (tracks: 1-3 & 7-10)
• Vincent Chancey
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  Vincent Chancey is an American jazz hornist.Chancey, a French horn player, attended the Southern Illinois University School of Music and then studied under Julius Watkins in New York City...
  
  : french horn (tracks: 4-10)
• Clifton Anderson
  Clifton Anderson
  Clifton Anderson is an American jazz musician, a trombone player. He grew up surrounded by music. His father was a church organist /choir director, and his mother a singer and pianist. It was no surprise that Clifton exhibited an affinity for music at an early age...
  
  : trombone (tracks: 4-10)
• Steve Turre
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  : trombone, conch shell (tracks: 4-10)
• E. J. Allen: trumpet (tracks: 4-10)
• Gerald Brezel: trumpet (tracks: 4-10)
• Stanton Davis
  Stanton Davis
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  : trumpet, piccolo trumpet (tracks: 4-10)
• Bob Stewart: tuba (tracks: 4-10)
• Vinnie Johnson: drums (tracks: 4-10)