High entropy alloys (HEA), medium entropy alloys and multi-phase compositionally complex alloys (CCA) have gained much attention in the last 20 years because of their outstanding mechanical properties. Such baseless alloys provide different open questions on local chemical ordering, lattice distortions, orbital hybridization and/or charge transfer which define the very nature of alloys’ mechanical properties. By combining EXAFS measurements in the rarely served tender x-ray range (PHOENIX-SLS, Al K-edge) and at higher X-ray energies (BM08-ESRF, transition metal K-edges), local chemical ordering in a CCA, Al8Cr17Co17Cu8Fe17Ni33 was quantified showing preferred Al-Ni and Al-Cu pairs. In addition, slight structural distortions, much lower than the predicted ones of metallic radii, were found.