• DIGIPACK EDITION

Jost may have had Fire Music and Mama Too Tight in mind when he suggested that by 1965 Shepp spoke “basically two musical languages whose grammar and syntax had hardly anything in common.” This reflected the commentariat’s insistence that a chasm existed between free jazz and mainstream jazz practices, and, implicitly, between the New Wave in Jazz and the New Breed led by James Brown. What was revolutionary about Shepp’s music is that it rejected the underlying binary, and embraced an inclusive approach.

PERSONNEL, TRACKS & DATES:

• [1-5]: FIRE MUSIC

• Archie Shepp - (tenor saxophone)
• Marion Brown - (alto saxophone)
• Ted Curson - (trumpet)
• Joseph Orange - (trombone)
• Reggie Johnson - (double bass)
• Joe Chambers - (drums)

• 01 Hambone
• 02 Los Olvidados
• 03 Prelude To A Kiss

• 04 The Girl From Ipanema
• Archie Shepp - (tenor saxophone)
• David Izenzon - (double bass)
• J .C. Moses - (drums)

• 05. Malcom, Malcom, Semper Malcom

• Recorded February 16 & March 9, 1965 at Van Gelder Studio
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• [6-9] MAMA TOO TIGHT
• Archie Shepp - (tenor saxophone)
• Perry Robinson - (clarinet)
• Tommy Turrentine - (trumpet)
• Grachan Moncure III - (trombone)
• Roswell Rudd - (trombone)
• Howard Johnson - (tuba)
• Charlie Haden - (double bass)
• Beaver Harris - (drums)

• 06 A Portrait Of Robert
• 6a Prelude To A Kiss
• 6b The Braek Strain – King Cotton (PD)
• 6c Dem Basses (PD)
• 07 Mama Too Tight
• 08 Theme For Ernie
• 09 Basheer

• Recorded August 16, 1966 at Van Gelder Studio