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Mama Rose

Featuring the music of Archie Shepp
Duration: 9:48
May 24, 2007

Kwanza

By Archie Shepp

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Back Back; Spoo Pee Doo; New Africa; Slow Drag; Bakai.

The Impulse Story

By Archie Shepp

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2006

Archie Shepp: Kwanza

by Chris May
November 15, 2006

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
November 14, 2006

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 ...

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

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.

For Losers

By Archie Shepp

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2005

Archie Shepp/Siegfried Kessler: First Take

by Germein Linares
June 29, 2005

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
February 24, 2005

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 ...