Joey Harrison
James Chance (in aviator glasses) & Roscoe Mitchell
Chance and I were both participants in a week-long workshop at Michigan State University in 1973 offered by The Art Ensemble of Chicago. James was attending MSU at the time and living in an apartment on Bogue Street. He invited me over one afternoon to see his record collection. My recollection is that it was all jazz. In 1976, James moved to New York and got busy on the music scene there. His band, The Contortions, was featured on the 1978 “No New York” anthology album, produced by Brian Eno, which spotlighted the city’s No Wave scene. In the next year or two the Contortions had two albums of their own, “Buy,” and “Off-White,” (the latter under the name James White and the Blacks). More releases followed in the ensuing years.
James Chance (in aviator glasses) & Roscoe Mitchell
Chance and I were both participants in a week-long workshop at Michigan State University in 1973 offered by The Art Ensemble of Chicago. James was attending MSU at the time and living in an apartment on Bogue Street. He invited me over one afternoon to see his record collection. My recollection is that it was all jazz. In 1976, James moved to New York and got busy on the music scene there. His band, The Contortions, was featured on the 1978 “No New York” anthology album, produced by Brian Eno, which spotlighted the city’s No Wave scene. In the next year or two the Contortions had two albums of their own, “Buy,” and “Off-White,” (the latter under the name James White and the Blacks). More releases followed in the ensuing years.