Creative Musician
Famoudou Don Moye
When Famoudou Don Moye joined the Art Ensemble of Chicago in 1970, he filled the gap that had been there since Philip Wilson left the group a couple years earlier to tour with the Butterfield Blues Band. Moye fit in perfectly, never just functioning as a timekeeper or an accompanist but becoming an equal partner in the innovative avant-garde quintet.
Kelan Phil Cohran
Compendium of many strands of secular Black music, Phil Cohran's Artistic Heritage Ensemble (AHE) was the direct link between the Sun Ra Arkestra on one hand and Earth, Wind & Fire (EWF) on the other.
Rhodee
Rhodee
African Percussion
Mwata Bowden
Born October 11, 1947 in Memphis, Tennessee, Mwata Bowden came the South Side of Chicago with his family when he was ten. Following the path that generations of African-Americans had taken since the beginning of the century, Bowden's father came North looking f or better-paying work and found it at a South Side factory.
