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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 ...
Archie Shepp: The Cry of My People
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 ...
A Fireside Chat with Archie Shepp
by AAJ Staff
I have read Archie Shepp described as “radical," “controversial," or “disturbing." Why? What is so “disturbing" about speaking your mind about subjects beyond the music? And why should writers even be focusing on Shepp's political views anyway? He is first and foremost an artist and as one, we should judge him by his discography, not his ...
I Know About The Life
By Archie Shepp
Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Well You Needn't; I Know About The Life; Giant Steps; Round Midnight.
Archie Shepp: I Know About The Life
by AAJ Staff
When a jazz musician goes from avant energy music toward age-old standards, the move is usually viewed in one of two ways. Either the artist receives criticism as a traitor who backed off from a forward vision, or he earns respect for moving the spirit of his music in a new direction. Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp ...
Archie Shepp: I Know About the Life
by Robert Spencer
I Know About the Life is a 1981 recording, now happily reissued by that splendid avatar of avant-garde music, Werner X. Uehlinger of Hat Hut Records. The rap on Shepp is that after his moment of glory in the Sixties and his no-holds-barred Impulse discs, he lost his edge, or his interest, or his nerve, and ...
Fire Music
By Archie Shepp
Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Hambone; Los Olvidados; Malcolm, Malcolm-Semper, Malcolm; Prelude
to a Kiss; The Girl from Ipanema; Hambone (live version)
