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| The Cry of My People |
| Archie Shepp |
| első megjelenés éve: 1972 |
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| (2006)
[ DIGIPACK ]
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CD |
| 3.726 Ft
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| 1. | Rest Enough
Song to Mother
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| 2. | A Prayer
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| 3. | All God's Children Got a Home in the Universe
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| 4. | The Lady
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| 5. | The Cry of My People
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| 6. | African Drum Suite, Pt. 1-2
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| 7. | African Drum Suite, Pt. 2
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| 8. | Come Sunday
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Jazz / Modern Big Band; Black Gospel; Jazz-Funk; Avant-Garde; Free Jazz
Recorded: Septembet 25-27, Allegro Sound Studios, New York City
Archie Shepp - Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Charles McGhee - Trumpet
Charles Stephens - Trombone
Charles Greenlee - Trombone, Arranger, Conductor
John Blake - Violin
Noel DeCosta - Violin
Gayle Dixon - Violin
Leroy Jenkins - Violin
Jerry Little - Violin
Louis Siessinger - Violin
Patricia Dixon - Cello
Esther Mellon - Cello
Harold Mabern - Piano
Dave Burrell - Piano, Arranger, Conductor
Cornell Dupree - Guitar
Ron Carter - Bass
Jimmy Garrison - Bass
Nene DeFense - Congas, Tambourine, Percussion
Guilherme Franco - Berimbau, Percussion
Beaver Harris - Drums
Bernard Purdie - Drums
Peggie Blue - Vocal
Andre Franklin - Vocal
Mildred Lane - Vocal
Mary Stephens - Vocal
Barbara White - Vocal
Judith White - Vocal
Joe Lee Wilson - Vocal
Terry Quaye - Vocal, Tambourine, Congas
Romulus Franceschini - Arranger, Conductor
Cal Massey - Arranger, Conductor
Combining elements of gospel, r&b, blues, free jazz, and other styles, this album showcases not just Archie Shepp the brilliant avante garde saxophonist but also Archie Shepp the committed African-American political activist. As the original notes explain, "The selections within this album are about resistance. The music requires that you listen and think."
Archie Shepp
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: May 24, 1937 in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Poetry, Progressive Big Band, Ballads, Hard Bop, Early Creative, Free Jazz, Mainstream Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Standards, Avant-Garde Jazz
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, AristaFreedom, Phonogram, Steeplechase, Denon, Enja, EPM, and Soul Note.
---Ron Wynn & Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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