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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 ...
