Attica Blues (album)
1972 studio album by Archie Shepp
Attica Blues avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp . Originally released in 1972 on the Impulse! label, the album title refers to the Attica Prison riots .[ 6]
Reception
The AllMusic review by Steve Huey states: "Attica Blues is one of Shepp's most successful large-group projects, because his skillful handling of so many different styles of black music produces such tremendously groovy results".[ 7] Stephen Davis of Rolling Stone [ 2]
Track listing
All compositions by Archie Shepp, except as indicated "Attica Blues" (lyrics by Beaver Harris ) – 4:49
"Invocation: Attica Blues" (Harris) – 0:18
"Steam, Part 1" – 5:08
"Invocation to Mr. Parker " (lyrics by Bart Gray) – 3:17
"Steam, Part 2" – 5:10
"Blues for Brother George Jackson " – 4:00
"Invocation: Ballad for a Child" (Harris) – 0:30
"Ballad for a Child" (lyrics by Harris) – 3:37
"Good-Bye Sweet Pops" (Cal Massey ) – 4:23
"Quiet Dawn" (Massey) – 6:12 Recorded at A&R Recording , NYC, January 24–26, 1972 (Track timings slightly differ from one issue to another, due to merging tracks.)
Personnel
Archie Shepp - tenor saxophone (1, 6, 8, 10) and soprano saxophone (3, 5, 9)
Brass and reed section on tracks 1, 6, 9 and 10
String section on tracks 1, 3, 5, and 8—10
Marion Brown - alto saxophone (1, 6), bamboo flute (3), flute (4), percussion (3—5)Walter Davis, Jr. - electric piano (1, 6), piano (6, 8—10)Dave Burrell - electric piano (3, 5)Cornell Dupree - guitar (1, 3, 5, 8)Roland Wilson (1, 3, 5–6, 8), Gerald Jemmott (1) - Fender bass
Jimmy Garrison - bass (3—5, 9, 10)Beaver Harris (1, 3, 5–6, 8) - drums Ollie Anderson , Nene DeFense, Juma Sultan - percussion (1, 6, 10)Vocals
Featured exclusively on tracks 9 and 10, written by Cal Massey
References
^ Allmusic review ^ a b Davis, Stephen (August 17, 1972). "Archie Shepp - Attica Blues" . Rolling Stone . Retrieved 12 January 2016 .^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide 179 . ISBN 0-394-72643-X ^ Cook, Richard ; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Penguin . p. 1290. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0 ^ Chinen, Nate. "Archie Shepp: Attica Blues Album Review" . Pitchfork . Retrieved April 17, 2022 . ^ Bergstrom, John (1 April 2014). "Archie Shepp / Attica Blues Orchestra - I Hear the Sound" . PopMatters . Retrieved 12 January 2016 . ^ Huey, S. Allmusic Review , accessed June 25, 2009.
External links
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release,
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Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet The House I Live In Lars Gullin , 1963)Four for Trane Fire Music On This Night New Thing at Newport John Coltrane , 1965)Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco Mama Too Tight The Magic of Ju-Ju For Losers Kwanza The Way Ahead Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones Black Gipsy Blasé Live at the Pan-African Festival Pitchin Can Poem for Malcolm Yasmina, a Black Woman Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble Coral Rock Doodlin' Things Have Got to Change Attica Blues The Cry of My People A Sea of Faces Bijou Body and Soul Horo , 1975)Jazz a Confronto 27 Mariamar Montreux One Montreux Two There's a Trumpet in My Soul Hi-Fly Karin Krog , 1976)Steam Goin' Home Horace Parlan , 1977)On Green Dolphin Street Duet Dollar Brand , 1978)Lady Bird Looking at Bird Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , 1980)Trouble in Mind Mama Rose Jasper van 't Hof , 1982)Soul Song Down Home New York California Meeting: Live on Broadway Little Red Moon Duo Reunion Horace Parlan , 1987)Splashes Lover Man Body and Soul Richard Davis , Enja , 1989)Blue Ballads New York WithCecil With
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