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A Fireside Chat with Archie Shepp

Read "A Fireside Chat with Archie Shepp" reviewed 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 ...

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I Know About The Life

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Well You Needn't; I Know About The Life; Giant Steps; Round Midnight.

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Archie Shepp: I Know About The Life

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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 ...

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Archie Shepp: I Know About the Life

Read "I Know About the Life" reviewed 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 ...

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Live In Antibes (Vol. 1 & 2)

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2002

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Left Alone Revisited

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2002

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Fire Music

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)

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Archie Shepp: Fire Music

Read "Fire Music" reviewed by Robert Gilbert


Some of the most exciting jazz albums to listen to are those that try to strike a middle ground between the mainstream and the Avant-garde. One such example is Archie Shepp’s Fire Music : an often-fascinating album, rich in compositional and improvisational prowess. Employing a sextet including drummer Joe Chambers and alto saxophonist Marion Brown, Shepp ...

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Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music

Read "Branford & Ellis Marsalis: The Dawn of Marsalis Music" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The first family of jazz, the Marsalis of New Orleans, have seemingly been in the eye of a musical hurricane for the past twenty years. With the news that Saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his father Ellis Marsalis had severed their ties with Sony music, comes the announcement that they have formed the independent label Marsalis Music. ...


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