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Archie Shepp Attica Blues Orchestra: I Hear the Sound

Read "I Hear the Sound" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 5, 2014

Nel 1972 Archie Shepp usciva con Attica Blues album accolto con favore dal pubblico ma liquidato senza tanti complimenti dalla critica che rimproverò a Shepp la virata verso una commercializzazione e semplificazione eccessiva della sua proposta musicale, salvo poi negli anni successivi rivalutarlo ampiamente e consideralo un significativo manifesto dei cambiamenti in corso nella black music di quel periodo. Quaranta anni dopo Shepp ripropone le composizioni di quell'album utilizzando un orchestra composta da solisti per lo più ...

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Archie Shepp: I Hear A Sound

Read "I Hear A Sound" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 5, 2014

Lest we forget. And certainly, how could we forget the struggles of the late-sixties and early- 1970s against racism, oppression, the Vietnam War? With the assassinations of JFK, MLK, Malcolm X, and Bobby Kennedy and the counter-culture movement scrambling the American identity, some believed the country was ripe for its own revolution. Music was (and I cannot now honestly say 'is') on the front lines of the rebellion. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young's reaction to Kent State, “Ohio," ...

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Archie Shepp Attica Blues Orchestra: I Hear the Sound

Read "I Hear the Sound" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 2, 2013

Saxophonist Archie Shepp wrote “Attica Blues" in 1972, not long after a five-day uprising at that New York state prison left thirty-nine people dead, twenty-nine of whom were inmates. Now, more than forty years later, Shepp's Attica Blues Orchestra (comprised for the most part of French musicians) has resurrected the “Blues" and made it the linchpin of a new album, I Hear the Sound, which includes five more compositions by Shepp, three by Cal Massey, one by pianist Amina Claudine ...

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Archie Shepp Attica Blues Orchestra: I Hear the Sound

Read "I Hear the Sound" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 1, 2013

Recorded in France in 2012 and 2013, I Hear the Sound is a live recording of saxophonist Archie Shepp's oratorio, “Attica Blues," co-written and arranged with Cal Massey in 1971, which was first heard on an Impulse! album a year later. Most of that album, Attica Blues, is revisited, with some adjustments to the running order of the tunes. In addition, Duke Ellington's “Come Sunday" is woven into the middle of the suite, and Shepp's “Mama Too Tight," the title ...