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Arthur Doyle
by John Sharpe
Better known by repute than in person saxophonist Arthur Doyle is nonetheless a free jazz legend. Though active since the '60s he has garnered barely a footnote in the written accounts of the music's history, not helped by a diminutive discography on obscure independent labels in limited pressings. But he has persevered and his rediscovery by ...
Kelly Rossum: Family
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Minneapolis trumpeter Kelly Rossum's previous release, the excellent Line (612 Sides, 2007) was in some ways as abstract and linear as its title. Family, fittingly, is as comforting and warm as its predecessor was austere--but also, appropriately, slightly bittersweet and elegiac.Partly, the difference is due to the presence of pianist Bryan Nichols. Line is ...
The Black Power Era
The role of music in the early civil rights movements is fairly widely known. Classic gospel songs, some more than a century old, were refashioned and sung at demonstrations, on picket lines, and across the South. Even the iconic song “We Shall Overcome" is based on an early spiritual. These songs expressed the surging energy of ...
Archie Shepp: Knowing the Life
by Clifford Allen
Saxophonist, pianist, writer and composer Archie Shepp was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida May 24, 1937 and grew up in Philadelphia playing with hard-bop luminaries such as Lee Morgan and Bobby Timmons. A move to New York in the 1960s and early gigs with Cecil Taylor aligned him with the avant-garde, leading to work with John ...
Mama Rose
Featuring the music of Archie Shepp
Duration: 9:48
Kwanza
By Archie Shepp
Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Back Back; Spoo Pee Doo; New Africa; Slow Drag; Bakai.
Archie Shepp: Kwanza
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 ...
Archie Shepp: Kwanza
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 ...
