What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.

The band continued on despite the loss. After having been back in Chicago for three years Mitchell then establiRoscoe Mitchelld the Creative Arts Collective (CAC) in 1974 that had a similar musical aesthetic to the AACM. The album was "a departure from the more extroverted work of the New York-based free jazz players" due in part to the band recording with "unorthodox devices" such as toys and bicycle horns.

He continues "to be a major figure. Roscoe Mitchell (b. " He has even been called a "super musician" and the New York Times has mentioned that he "qualifies as an iconoclast.