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Archie Shepp: St. Louis Blues
by Mark Corroto
Several recent sightings of the ‘bird’ known as Archie Shepp signal, perhaps, his return to the American dialogue on jazz. Last year, Shepp made a guest appearance on guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly’s African/urban Boom Bop record and the year before he was the featured guest of Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio recording, Conversations. Shepp’s voice in the 1960’s ...
Conversations
By Archie Shepp
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Conversations 1; The Introduction/ Big Fred/ Kari/ Whenever I Think of You/ Conversations 2; The Dialogue/ Brother Malcolm/ Revelations. Recorded: January 23 & 24, 1999, Riverside Studios, Chicago, IL.
Charles Gayle
by Robert Spencer
Charles Gayle blew down with hurricane force--the pun is too obvious--out of Buffalo. He drifted in and out of the first great free jazz scenes of the Sixties, playing with Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, and other trailblazers. But he says now that his sound then was even more fiery and forceful than it is now, and ...
Archie Shepp w/ the Ritual Trio: Conversations
by Derek Taylor
Archie Shepp has long held a special distinction as one of the pioneers of the so-called New Thing in jazz. Possessed of a sharp intellect and a deep pride in his African heritage he was one of the most vocal and uncompromising skeptics, challenging both his peers and himself to question not only musical conventions but ...
Archie Shepp Meets Khahil El 'Zabar's Ritual Trio: Conversations
by Jack Bowers
I suppose one does mellow with age after all. Time was when I wouldn’t even listen to, let alone review a disc by Archie Shepp and Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio. Now I’m listening, and if not exactly galvanized by the music, I find it far less displeasing than I would have some years ago. Much of ...
Archie Shepp: "Something To Live For"
by Glenn Astarita
While making every attempt at identifying any inherent musical attributes that result in positive feelings or thoughts, this writer struggled with Archie Shepp’s futile stabs at vocalizing through an array of tried and true jazz standards. Archie Shepp’s place in Modern Jazz history as an innovative stylist and improviser is etched in stone; however, on “Something ...
