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| Fire Music |
| Archie Shepp |
első megjelenés éve: 1965
39 perc |
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| (1995)
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| 3.923 Ft
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| 1. | Hambone
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| 2. | Los Olvidados
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| 3. | Malcolm, Malcolm, Semper Malcolm
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| 4. | Prelude to a Kiss
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| 5. | The Girl from Ipanema
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| 6. | Hambone [Live]
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Jazz / Avant-Garde, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Archie Shepp (tenor saxophone)
Marion Brown (alto saxophone); Fred Pirtle (baritone saxophone); Ted Curson, Virgil Jones (trumpet); Joseph Orange, Ashley Fennell (trombone); Reggie Johnson, David Izenzon (bass); Joe Chambers, J.C. Moses, Roger Blank (drums)
Producer: Bob Thiele.
Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.
Includes liner notes by Nat Hentoff.
Digitally remastered using 20-but technology by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios).
This particular early Archie Shepp recording has its strong moments, although it is a bit erratic. Four selections utilize an advanced sextet. Of these songs, "Hambone" has overly repetitive and rather monotonous riffing by the horns behind the soloists, and Shepp's bizarre exploration of "The Girl From Ipanema" gets tedious, but the episodic "Los Olvidaos" is quite colorful, and the tenorman sounds fine on a spacy rendition of "Prelude to a Kiss." "Malcolm, Malcolm-Semper Malcolm" has Shepp reading a brief poem for the fallen Malcolm X before he jams effectively on tenor in a trio with bassist David Izenzon and drummer J.C. Moses. Overall, this set, even with its faults, is recommended. [The CD is rounded out by a "bonus" cut not on the original LP -- a live version of "Hambone" that is much more interesting than the earlier rendition.] ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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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