People in Sorrow
# People in Sorrow

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. It features an extended improvised performance by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell and Malachi Favors Maghostut.

## Reception

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". 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".

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## Track listing

* "People In Sorrow Part 1" - 17:05
* "People In Sorrow Part 2" - 23:05

    All compositions by the Art Ensemble of Chicago
   * Recorded July 7, 1969 in Boulogne, Paris

## Personnel

* Lester Bowie: trumpet, percussion instruments
* Malachi Favors Maghostut: bass, percussion instruments, vocals
* Joseph Jarman: saxophones, clarinets, percussion instruments
* Roscoe Mitchell: saxophones, clarinets, flute, percussion instruments
