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Archie Shepp

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Archie Shepp has been at various times a feared firebrand and radical, soulful throwback and contemplative veteran. He was viewed in the '60s as perhaps the most articulate and disturbing member of the free generation, a published playwright willing to speak on the record in unsparing, explicit fashion about social injustice and the anger and rage he felt. His tenor sax solos were searing, harsh, and unrelenting, played with a vivid intensity. But in the '70s, Shepp employed a fatback/swing-based R&B approach, and in the '80s he mixed straight bebop, ballads, and blues pieces displaying little of the fury and fire from his earlier days. Shepp studied dramatic literature at Goddard College, earning his degree in 1959. He played alto sax in dance bands and sought theatrical work in New York. But Shepp switched to tenor, playing in several free jazz bands. He worked with Cecil Taylor, co-led groups with Bill Dixon and played in the New York Contemporary Five with Don Cherry and John Tchicai. He led his own bands in the mid-'60s with Roswell Rudd, Bobby Hutcherson, Beaver Harris, and Grachan Moncur III. His Impulse albums included poetry readings and quotes from James Baldwin and Malcolm X. Shepp's releases sought to paint an aural picture of African-American life, and included compositions based on incidents like Attica or folk sayings. He also produced plays in New York, among them The Communist in 1965 and Lady Day: A Musical Tragedy in 1972 with trumpeter/composer Cal Massey. But starting in the late '60s, the rhetoric was toned down and the anger began to disappear from Shepp's albums. He substituted a more celebratory, and at times reflective attitude. Shepp turned to academia in the late '60s, teaching at SUNY in Buffalo, then the University of Massachusetts. He was named an associate professor there in 1978. Shepp toured and recorded extensively in Europe during the '80s, cutting some fine albums with Horace Parlan, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and Jasper van't Hof. Shepp continued to tour and record throughout the '90s and '00s. Moving from provocative free-jazz icon in his youth to elder jazz journeyman in his latter years, Shepp has appeared on a variety of labels over the years including Impulse, Byg, Arista/Freedom, Phonogram, Steeplechase, Denon, Enja, EPM, and Soul Note. ~ Ron Wynn & Scott Yanow, Rovi

Title: Archie Shepp Live

Artist: Archie Shepp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Classics

Artist: Archie Shepp

Genre: Soul, Blues, Jazz, Funk

Title: Second Set

Artist: Horace Parlan, Archie Shepp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Pussy Cat

Artist: Archie Shepp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Passion

Artist: Archie Shepp, Michel Marre

Genre: Jazz

Title: Gemini

Artist: Archie Shepp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Essential Best

Artist: Archie Shepp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Sheet Music

Artist: Archie Shepp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Black Ballads

Artist: Archie Shepp

Genre: Jazz

Title: Guitar Town Music

Artist: Archie Shepp

Genre: Jazz

Collections

Title: Post-Bop Jazz

Genre: Jazz

Title: 100% Funk

Genre: Jazz

Title: Funk Off!

Genre: Jazz

Title: Rare Grooves

Genre: Jazz

Title: Impulsive! Unmixed

Genre: Jazz

Title: Jazz Feeling Blue

Genre: Jazz

Title: Tenor Madness

Genre: Jazz

Title: Jazz At the Movies

Genre: Jazz

Title: Red Hot + Riot

Genre: Jazz

Title: Jazzactuel

Genre: Jazz

Title: Best of Free Jazz

Genre: Jazz

Title: Great Jazz Drumming

Genre: Jazz

Title: Jazzactuel (Disc 1)

Genre: Jazz

Title: Jazz & Blues Gospel

Genre: Jazz

Title: Essential Jazz Sax

Genre: Jazz

Title: Jazz Sax - Verve 50

Genre: Jazz

Title: 50 Greatest Jazz

Genre: Jazz

Title: Explosive Grooves

Genre: Jazz

Title: Exotic Jazz

Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz

Featuring albums

Title: Red Eyes

Artist: Mina Agossi

Genre: Jazz, Rock

Title: Verve Unmixed 2

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Jazz

Title: Verve Unmixed 2

Artist: Verve Unmixed

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Title: Live At The Festival

Artist: Diverse

Genre: Jazz

Title: 70's Jazz

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Jazz

Title: Mack the Knife

Artist: Various Artists

Genre: Jazz

Title: Mysteries: Untitled

Artist: Henry Grimes

Genre: Jazz

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