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About Archie Shepp
Instrument: Saxophone, tenor
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Archie Shepp

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Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale in Florida. He grew up in Philadelphia, studied piano and saxophone and attended high school in Germantown; he went to college, became involved with theatre, met writers and poets, among them, Leroy Jones and wrote: «The Communist», an allegorical play about the situation of black Americans. In the late fifties, Archie Shepp also met the most radical musicians of the time: Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Jimmy Garrison, Ted Curson, Beaver Harris ... his political consciousness found an expression in plays and theatrical productions which barely allowed him to make a living
The Way Ahead, Kwanza, The Magic Of Ju-ju Revisited

By Archie Shepp
Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Way Ahead: Damn If I Know (The Stroller); Frankenstein; Fiesta; Sophisticated Lady. Kwanza: New Africa; Bakai. The Magic Of Ju-Ju: The Magic Of Ju-Ju.
Four For Trane To Live Newport 1965 Revisited

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2023
Track listing: Syeeda’s Song Flute; Mr. Syms; Cousin Mary; Naima; Rufus (Swung, His Face At Last To The Wind,
Then His Neck Snapped); Rufus (Swung, His Face At Last To The Wind, Then His Neck Snapped);; Le
Matin Des Noire; Scag; Call Me By My Rightful Name; Gingerbread, Gingerbread Boy.
Bo van de Graaf: Shinjuku

by Karl Ackermann
Saxophonist and composer Bo van de Graaf is not well known outside Western Europe despite being one of the most interesting and creative figures in music. His Dutch ensemble, I Compani, has been active for almost thirty years. Van De Graaf composes original scores based on classic films of Fellini, Bertolucci, Greta Garbo, and others. He ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Archie Shepp

All About Jazz is celebrating Archie Shepp's birthday today! Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale in Florida. He grew up in Philadelphia, studied piano and saxophone and attended high school in Germantown; he went to college, became involved with theatre, met writers and poets, among them, Leroy Jones and wrote: «The Communist», an ...
William Parker New Heart Trio at The Chapel

by Roy Strassman
William Parker New Heart Trio The Chapel San Francisco, CA May 15, 2023 William Parker is a free jazz phenom, as his current New Heart Trio heartedly demonstrated. Accompanied by the legendary William Hooker on the drum set and firebrand Isaiah Collier on tenor saxophone and hand percussion, Parker, attired in ...
Michael Dease, Bob Brookmeyer, Archie Shepp and More

by Jerome Wilson
This program has a wide range of newer and older modern jazz, including recent music from Michael Dease and Anthony Branker and older work from Bob Brookmeyer and the Archie Shepp Attica Blues Big Band. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of ...
Francois Houle, Sei Miguel & other new Clean Feed Releases

by Maurice Hogue
There's plenty of great new music to get excited about in this edition of OMJ. Clean Feed Records, that wonderful label in Portugal, just dropped a whole bunch of new albums and I'm happy to dig into these--the Italian band {m: Roots Magic}} that digs into blues and avant-garde, the unique trumpeter Sei Miguel , Canadian ...
Ivo Perelman: Artificial Intelligence

by Jeff Schwartz
Do not be misled by the title: no bots or algorithms were involved in creating this album. While there have been fascinating experiments in improvisation with interactive software by George Lewis, Richard Teitelbaum and others, Artificial Intelligence is just under an hour of spontaneous human interaction by two of the most prolific and uncategorizable improvisers in ...
Archie Shepp: Four For Trane To Live Newport 1965 Revisited

by John Eyles
Ezz-thetics have already released several '60s albums featuring Archie Shepp which were recorded before or after the music on Four For Trane to Live Newport 1965 Revisited. These have included the New York Contemporary Five's Copenhagen 1963 Revisited plus Shepp's Fire Music To Mama Too Tight Revisited, recorded in 1965 and 1966, and Blasé and Yasmina ...