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Kwanza

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Back Back; Spoo Pee Doo; New Africa; Slow Drag; Bakai.

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Archie Shepp: Kwanza

Read "Kwanza" reviewed by Chris May


Albert Ayler flamed like phosphorous for a few years, spoke like an Old Testament prophet, wore leather trousers and died young in mysterious circumstances. Archie Shepp burned just as bright, but has lived to a ripe age, growing to embrace the mainstream, and has had one foot in academe for much of his career. The two ...

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Archie Shepp: Kwanza

Read "Kwanza" reviewed by Norman Weinstein


This big band session collects all of Archie Shepp's virtues as a composer, saxophonist and jazz dramaticist and puts them into one glorious package. Like the African-American holiday this album is named after, it's an imposing hybrid form, a sprawling mass of experimental jazz circa 1969 sharply peppered with funk, blues, and myriad musical evocations of ...

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Kwanza

Label: Soul Note
Released: 1974


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