Jazz
Archie Shepp has always been a musical hero of mine. His tenor can sound as beautiful as any tenor sound in jazz as it does on TROUBLE IN MIND and GOIN' HOME (1979). But it can also be raw and passionate as it is on LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO. This music is of its time but still worth listening to fuelled as it is by anguish, anger and a profound sense of injustice at being black in America. Charlie Parker said " if you don't live it it won't come out of your horn" and Archie Shepp was one of the great exemplars of that saying - he spoke to and of the sixties through his music as much as Martin Luther King did in his way. This is challenging music -it's not sweet music. It's passionate, proud and intelligent music. It is music which says ATTENTION MUST BE PAID. There are two full LPs on this 20 bit remastered and bautifully packaged CD. Both were recorded at BOTH/AND CLUB in SAN FRAN on Feb 19, 1966. The second LP was originally issued as a continuous 33 minute work which divided into two parts, formed side one and two of the LP and is now presented as it should be in one piece. With Shepp are some of the most renowned musicians of the "new" music as it was called in the sixties including Roswell Rudd on trombone and Beaver Harris on drums. Donald Garrett and Lewis Worrell are the bassists. These are master musicians who have chosen to play this music. One track is recitation by Shepp called THE WEDDING backed only by the arco bass of Worrell. The listener may be surprised by the consummate articulation and rich voice of Shepp the actor. I was. This music is also of rich historical interest and anyone even vaguely interested in the evolution of American society into a more just and civilized one, will find this music enriching with being ponderous. It is not just entertaining music.
By Ian Muldoon.
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Archie Shepp- Tenor Sax, Piano
Roswell Rudd- Trombone
Donald Garrett- Bass (#1, 2, 5-8)
Lewis Worrell- Bass
Beaver Harris- Drums
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01. Keep Your Heart Right (Rudd) 1:15
02. Lady Sings the Blues (Nichols) 7:32
03. Sylvia Speaks 5:35
04. The Wedding (Shepp) 2:52
05. Wherever June Bugs Go (Shepp) 10:25
06. In a Sentimental Mood (Ellington, Kurtz, Mills) 6:14
07. Things Ain't What They Used to Be (Ellington, Persons) 7:56
08. Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime (Shepp) 32:54
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