Archie Shepp is in fine form on his latest CD, Tomorrow will be Another Day. The New Archie Shepp Quartet is an excellent group composed of Shepp on tenor, soprano and vocals, Amina Claudine Myers on ...

One such example is Archie Shepp’s Fire Music: an often-fascinating album ... As an added bonus on the 1995 CD reissue, a live version of “Hambone” recorded in March of 1965 is included.

Jazz legend Archie Shepp has teamed up with Jason Moran, the Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center, for a new collaborative album. Let My People Go is out February 5 on Archieball .

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Archie Shepp released the funk-backed big band and vocals album Attica Blues in 1972, in outraged response ...

From then on, Archie Shepp would multiply the musical encounters "world" with Gwoka from Guadeloupe, Hungarians (CD Hungarian bebop with Mihaly Dresch) and many others. From 1969, he taught ...

Shepp is lyrical and emotive with his instrument. He is capable of communicating great pain, but does not clog every measure with shrieks. Moran is equally tasteful and expressive, but if Shepp is ...

On January 26, 1972, Archie Shepp packed up his tenor and soprano saxophones and headed to A&R Recording in New York for the third and final session of an album he was planning to call Attica Blues.

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This siege would later inspire the album Attica Blues by the US musician Archie Shepp who, more than 40 years on, has re-recorded it. Speaking to the Today programme, Mr Shepp said he originally ...

On the other hand, composer and saxophonist Shepp is still alive and would be able to pick his award up in person - plus I Hear The Sound is a worthy contender.

In 1995, saxophonist, composer, and educator Archie Shepp was awarded the New England Foundation for the Arts' "Achievement in Jazz Award." It honors New England jazz artists whose performance ...

Hear highlights from a few albums worth shoveling out, by Archie Shepp, Edward Simon, James Brandon Lewis and more.