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Archie Shepp Meets Khahil El 'Zabar's Ritual Trio: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed 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 ...

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Archie Shepp: "Something To Live For"

Read ""Something To Live For"" reviewed 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 ...

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Four for Trane

Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 1997

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Something To Live For

Label: Soul Note
Released: 1997

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Soul Song

Label: Soul Note
Released: 1997

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Archie Shepp: Four for Trane

Read "Four for Trane" reviewed by Robert Spencer


This is Archie Shepp’s first album for Impulse (1964); in a gesture of gratitude to the man who got him the gig, he records four Giant Steps -era Coltrane tunes plus one original in an unusual large-ensemble arrangement. It is newly available in a pristine 20-bit remastering. One listen to this album reveals the debt Shepp ...

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Swing Low

Label: Plainisphare
Released: 1993
Track listing: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; See See Rider; Embraceable You; Go Down Moses; Make Me A Pallet On The Floor; I Didn't Know About You; Dedication To Bessie Smith's Blues; Billie's Bossa;

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Black Ballads

Label: Soul Note
Released: 1992

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Fire Music + 4

Label: Soul Note
Released: 1992


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