People in Sorrow
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| Released | 1969 | |||
| Recorded | July 7, 1969 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:10 | |||
| Label | Pathé-Marconi | |||
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People in Sorrow is a 1969 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago recorded in Boulogne for the French Pathé-Marconi label, later reissued in the US on Nessa Records.[1][2] It features an extended improvised performance by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell and Malachi Favors Maghostut. The album was also reissued in May 2026 by the Berlin-based label play loud! productions [3] on vinyl and CD, accompanied by extended liner notes by music journalist Chris Morris, bringing renewed attention to this landmark recording.
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "The still-startling music, which uses space, dynamics, and a wide range of emotions expertly, is not for everyone's taste (the high-energy tenors of the mid-1960s are actually easier to get into), but worth the struggle".[4] The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide said "their masterpiece, People in Sorrow, a forty-minute example of how the group's menagerie of instruments and spontaneous approach to structure can create clearly delineated precisely shaded and starkly emotional music".[5]
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [5] |
