Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet
Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics

Chick Corea: piano
Dave Holland: bass
Barry Altschul: percussion

Jan Garbarek: tenor and bass saxophones, clarinet, flutes, percussion
Terje Rypdal: guitar, bugle
Arild Andersen: bass, african thumb piano, xylophone
Jon Christensen: percussion

Michael Mantler: trumpet, Don Preston: synthesizer

Maryllin Crispell: piano, Gary Peacock: bass, Paul Motian: drums

Ben Monder: electric guitar, electric baritone guitar; Pete Rende: synthesizer; Andrew Cyrille: drums, percussion; Paul Motian: drums

THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO AND ASSOCIATED ENSEMBLES is a 21-CD limited and numbered edition issued as the standard-bearers of Great Black Music prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary. Both the Art Ensemble of Chicago and ECM Records were founded in 1969, and there have been many shared experiences. As Roscoe Mitchell says, “It has been amazing to have taken this journey together.”

Barre Phillips: bass, Alain Joule: percussion