Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Congliptious - Roscoe Mitchell on AllMusic - - Congliptious is a landmark recording of modern. Review: by Scott Yanow: This limited-edition five-CD set available directly from Nessa not only reissues the important free jazz albums Old/Quartet, Numbers 1 & 2, and Congliptious but contains quite a bit of music taken from rehearsals by the members of the group that would by become known as the Art Ensemble of Chicago. With such advanced improvisers as trumpeter Lester Bowie, Roscoe Author: Julien Héraud. Recorded in the year prior to his groundbreaking Congliptious but not released until , Old Quartet captures the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble (which would later coalesce into the Art Ensemble of Chicago) on a clear pathway toward the later album's majestic getfreeonlinequotes.com: Vitko.