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For Losers

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2005

Album

First Take

Label: Archie Ball Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Le Matin De Noirs; Lush Life; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Steam; Misterioso- California Blues; Ujaama.

Album

Tomorrow will be Another Day

Label: PAO Records/ SBF Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Blue Monk 2. Tomorrow Will Be Another Day 3. The Stars Are In Your Eyes 4. Call Him 5. Kwanza 6. It's All Right 7. Mama Rose

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Article: Album Review

Archie Shepp/Siegfried Kessler: First Take

Read "First Take" reviewed by Germein Linares


Paired with German pianist Siegfried Kessler, Archie Shepp finds himself in an evocative mood on First Take. Recorded live in France, they perform an intimate and at times haunting set of six tunes. The disc begins with the 22-minute sojourn of “Les Matin de Noirs" ("The Morning of the Blacks"). A surprisingly smooth ride, considering its ...

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Article: Interview

Archie Shepp: The Cries of My People

Read "Archie Shepp: The Cries of My People" reviewed by Ollie Bivens


If Trane is the father, Pharoah: the sun, and Ayler: the holy ghost, Archie Shepp is the uncle that no one mentions. Shepp, an outspoken critic of jazz and an advocate of social revolution, has endured significant industry persecution for his awareness. And while the acerbic edge to his music has muted in recent years, his ...

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The Cry of My People

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Rest Enough 2. A Prayer 3. All God

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Article: Reassessing

Archie Shepp: Attica Blues

Read "Archie Shepp: Attica Blues" reviewed by Trevor MacLaren


Archie Shepp Attica Blues Impulse! 1972 In November of 2004, the world stage is set on the American election. In a post-9/11 world the masses have become paranoid, tense and angry. At the forefront is George W. Bush's foreign policy. Thirty years ago artists found themselves in a similar plight ...

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Article: Album Review

Archie Shepp: Tomorrow will be Another Day

Read "Tomorrow will be Another Day" reviewed by Florence Wetzel


Archie Shepp is in fine form on his latest CD, Tomorrow will be Another Day. The New Archie Shepp Quartet is an excellent group composed of Shepp on tenor, soprano and vocals, Amina Claudine Myers on piano and vocals, Cameron Brown on bass and Ronnie Burrage on drums and wave drum. The recording is a nice ...

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Archie Shepp: The Cry of My People

Read "The Cry of My People" reviewed by David Rickert


Archie Shepp is an artist whose work, while not always successful, nevertheless remains compelling and worth a listen. The Cry of My People is not his best effort, but one can respect his maverick approach to jazz scholarship that resists classification and challenges the notion of what can be defined as jazz. This album comes from ...


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