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Archie Shepp
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Fort Lauderdale, Florida (1937 – present)
Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, poet, and playwright long known for the outspoken political tones in his work.
Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 24th, 1937, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he studied piano, clarinet and alto saxophone before focusing on tenor saxophone (he occasionally plays soprano saxophone). He is best known for his passionately afrocentric music of the late sixties which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by people of African descent. He is also known for his 60’s work with the New York Contemporary Five with co-founder Don Cherry and Shepp’s collaborations with his “New Thing” contemporaries, most notably Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane, but also Roswell Rudd and Bobby Hutcherson.
Considered a jazz great, saxophonist Artie Shepp recorded albums like Poem for Malcolm and Live In Antibes for labels like Verve and Impulse. He was active in academia at SUNY Buffalo as a professor of African American Studies and the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a professor of music. He played with other notable musical radicals including Frank Zappa and provided the musical score to the movie Gotta Dance and is featured on the 1984 Wilebski’s Blues Saloon Festival DVD.
Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on May 24th, 1937, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he studied piano, clarinet and alto saxophone before focusing on tenor saxophone (he occasionally plays soprano saxophone). He is best known for his passionately afrocentric music of the late sixties which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by people of African descent. He is also known for his 60’s work with the New York Contemporary Five with co-founder Don Cherry and Shepp’s collaborations with his “New Thing” contemporaries, most notably Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane, but also Roswell Rudd and Bobby Hutcherson.
Considered a jazz great, saxophonist Artie Shepp recorded albums like Poem for Malcolm and Live In Antibes for labels like Verve and Impulse. He was active in academia at SUNY Buffalo as a professor of African American Studies and the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a professor of music. He played with other notable musical radicals including Frank Zappa and provided the musical score to the movie Gotta Dance and is featured on the 1984 Wilebski’s Blues Saloon Festival DVD.
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Attica Blues
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Four For Trane
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Fire Music
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Mama too tight
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Ballad For A Child
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Cousin Mary
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Invocation To Mr. Parker
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Quiet Dawn
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Naima
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The Girl From Ipanema
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Los Olvidados
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Hambone
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Syeeda's Song Flute
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Le Matin des Noire
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Good Bye Sweet Pops
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Theme For Ernie
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Gin-Ice wrote:
Sax-Appeal!
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Morngrim wrote:
Genius.
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-Eugene wrote:
WE HAVE COME BACK
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Schrubbel wrote:
Welcome to Schru´s JAZZworldMusic http://www.lastfm.de/user/Schrubbel . Listen and Enjoy !
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icu_ wrote:
Had the great pleasure of taking a couple courses with him in college. I never missed a class. An honor.
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MavonBarksfield wrote:
dude rules
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hollabackitsobi wrote:
Could Archie Shepp edge Dexter Gordon out as my favorite tenor saxophonist? His sessions are definitely more interesting.
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umbranaut wrote:
меня убивает его произношение
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Grindfucked wrote:
Fire Music yes yes yes
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MrMojoRising88 wrote:
Cousin Mary is EARGASMIC!
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-tgt- wrote:
Four for Trane iz INCREDIBLE! and Golden Age = ofcourse you the 60's ;-)
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gunerri wrote:
I remember "four for trane" it was terrible to me but his performance is great at the release " a love supreme deluxe edition" with COLTRANE!
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Sen_dog wrote:
Seen live. Great man from golden age of jazz
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sGarrista- wrote:
The Magic of Ju-Ju is incredible
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irqo wrote:
"Rozwija się nadal nasza czarna wokalna i taneczna tradycja. Natomiast tradycja instrumentalna uległa stagnacji. Oczywiście jest dziś wielu znakomitych muzyków. Nie mam nic przeciwko tym muzykom – są prawdziwymi ekspertami, ale ich muzyka jest mało interesująca. Brakuje w niej wyczucia bluesa i tego czegoś, co przynosi doświadczenie. Nie wiem czy jest to odpowiedź na zadane pytanie, ale jeśli chodzi o jazz, miom zdaniem muzyka ta niewiele się rozwinęła od czasu śmierci Coltrane’a." Fragment wywiadu dla Jazz Forum - warto poczytać: http://jazzforum.com.pl/news.php?action=show&id=132
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Emendef wrote:
I dunno him
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ryadeum wrote:
I'm not an expert of the music of Archie Shepp, but the release 'New Thing At Newport' is pure greatness (Live at Newport 1965, together with John Coltrane): http://www.last.fm/music/Archie+Shepp/New+Thing+At+Newport
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av1222 wrote:
I just love him, one of the greatest musicians.
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bigsexyshaq wrote:
He looks very cute in that pic. :)
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