In 1963, cornetist Don Cherry, tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp , drummer J.C. Moses, alto saxophonist John Tchicai and bassist Don Moore performed at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen . At the time, ...
It was July 1969, a few weeks before Woodstock. Men had just landed on the moon. After 132 years of French colonialism, Algeria was independent, and 1 million settlers had left the country. It was a ...
Don’t call Archie Shepp a jazz musician. Also, as we found out recently, don’t call him before 4 p.m. — Shepp is nocturnal and might not yet be out of bed. Sleeping habits aside, Archie Shepp, 75, is ...
In his autobiography, “Live at the Village Vanguard,” Vanguard founder Max Gordon describes Professor Archie Shepp as a “professor of jazz at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst” before there ...
The album art for Let My People Go was created by the Polish artist Jacek Woźniak. Credit: Courtesy the artist The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So ...
Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale in Florida. He grew up in Philadelphia, studied piano and saxophone and attended high school in Germantown; he went to college, became involved with ...
Musicians often talk about players who are “the real deal.” For half a century, saxophonist Archie Shepp has been the real deal. This legendary figure — also a blues singer, a playwright, a poet — was ...
The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. With the passing of the great Pharoah Sanders in ...
When Jason Moore, the D.C. rapper and producer who works under the moniker Raw Poetic, first started writing rhymes as a teenager, he had a specific goal in mind. “I wanted to be able to rap to ...
The material here is familiar territory for Shepp: a mix of spirituals and standards, some of which he’s recorded before on Goin’ Home and other prior releases, plus one Moran original. But Shepp has ...
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 ...
June 26, 2020 • These songs take on some of the ugliest stories in our history and reflect the commitment of Black musicians to telling the truth of how Black people have been wronged, and survived, ...
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