CREATIVE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

Fine early-'70s improvising unit that contained some of that decade's best soloists. The group sadly didn't do much recording, but what they made bristled with energy and was vastly superior to much free or spontaneously created material. The entire roster of Leo Smith, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Muhal Richard Abrams, Richard Davis, and Steve McCall would go on to make major contributions to the music in the '70s. from allmusic Braxton moved to Paris in June 1969, hot on the heels of Roscoe Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, Malachi Favors and Lester Bowie, a quartet who in Paris took on the name “the Art Ensemble of Chicago.” Braxton soon gigged with the Art Ensemble, and also recorded with European based musicians like Gunther Hampel and Jacques Coursil. As he rode in a taxi from the train station on arrival, Braxton saw fellow AACM member Steve McCall on the street. Soon McCall would join read more...