Archie Shepp
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Biography
Archie Shepp is a jazz multi-instrumentalist who is best known for his band leadership and saxophone playing. Shepp truly was a key figure in the development of the avant-garde, fusion styles of jazz which moved the music on from its Bebop Golden Age in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by African, African-American and Latin musical styles, Shepp's reputation was so impressive that he was able to collaborate with such superstars of the new jazz direction developed in the late 1950s, the '60s and the 1970s as John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, and Sun Ra.
As well as being a primary innovator, Shepp is also an educator having taken up the roles of lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and as a professor of African-American Studies at SUNY in Buffalo, New York. Shepp's vast discography runs through the musical and political histories of his home nation as well as that of Hungary, Africa and Latin America. He continues to perform in the United States, Europe and around the world.
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- U-Jamaa
- Cousin Mary
- Blues For Brother George Jackson
- If You Could See Me Now
- Good Bye Sweet Pops
- Ballad For A Child
- Syeeda's Song Flute
- Mr. Syms
- Pannonica
- Rest Enough (Song To Mother)
- Déjà Vu by Archie Shepp
- Things Ain't What They Used to Be
- Quiet Dawn
- Quiet Dawn by Archie Shepp
- Goodbye Sweet Pop's by Archie Shepp
- Wise One featuring Archie Shepp
- Steam by Archie Shepp
- Mama Too Tight by Archie Shepp
- Ballad For a Child by Archie Shepp
- Theme For Ernie
- Caged Bird by Archie Shepp
- African Drum Suite
- Confirmation by Archie Shepp
- The Lady
