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Archie Shepp Mama Rose Play Video

Archie Shepp Mama Rose

Archie Shepp singin' Mama Rose. From an unidentified french documentary.

Archie Shepp blase Play Video

Archie Shepp blase

Dave Burrell: Piano, Philly Joe Jones: Drums, Jeanne Lee: Voice, Archie Shepp: Tenor Saxophone, Julio Finn: Harp, Chicago Beau: Harp, Lester Bowie: Trumpet

Archie Shepp - Attica Blues Play Video

Archie Shepp - Attica Blues

Archie Shepp's 'Attica Blues', released on Impulse Records in 1972, is one of his most popular and politically conscious records, concentrating more on funk, jazz and soul stylings than on the avant-garde explorations...

Archie Shepp Quartet - Live In Venice 2002 Play Video

Archie Shepp Quartet - Live In Venice 2002

Archie Shepp Quartet - Hope #2 Archie Shepp : tenor saxophone Wayne Dockery : bass Bobby Durham : drums Massimo Farao : piano Live at Paradiso Perduto, Venice, October 2002.

Blues for brother George Jackson Play Video

Blues for brother George Jackson

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Archie Shepp Biography

thumb|240px|Archie Shepp in France, 1982 Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries, most notably Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.

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Archie Shepp Discography

Archie Shepp albums.

  • Gemini (disc 1) - 09/07/2007 (Archie Ball/GB)
  • Gemini (disc 2) - 09/07/2007 (Archie Ball/GB)
  • Kwanza - 31/10/2006 (impulse!/US)
  • The Cry of My People - 09/03/2004 (impulse!/US)
  • True Blue - 21/01/1999 (Venus Records/JP)
  • Lady Bird - (Denon/US)
  • On Green Dolphin Street - (Denon/US)
  • Ballads For Trane - (Denon/JP)
  • Attica Blues - (impulse!/US)
  • On This Night - (impulse!/US)
  • Fire Music - (impulse!/US)
  • Four for Trane - (impulse!/US)

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