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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 ...
First Take
By Archie Shepp
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.
Tomorrow will be Another Day
By Archie Shepp
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
Archie Shepp/Siegfried Kessler: First Take
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 ...
Archie Shepp: The Cries of My People
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 ...
The Cry of My People
By Archie Shepp
Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Rest Enough 2. A Prayer 3. All God
Archie Shepp: Attica Blues
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 ...
Archie Shepp: Tomorrow will be Another Day
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 ...
