Archie Shepp

COLORED VINYL GATEFOLD EDITION

Archie Shepp’s 1969 album ‘Yasmina, A Black Woman’ was one of many jazz classics recorded in Paris by great African-American musicians at the end of the Sixties. The use of African instruments in the side-long free jazz opener ‘Yasmina’ help transform it into something utterly transcendent that pivots away from Western-centric jazz standards. The fusion of hard bop and avant-garde techniques on both tracks on side two - one of them featuring the legendary saxophonist Sonny Rollins - round out a forward-thinking classic.

PERSONNEL:

• Malachi Favors - (bass)
• "Philly" Joe Jones - (drums)
• Dave Burrell - (piano)
• Archie Shepp - (tenor sax)

Recorded August 12, 1969 in Paris.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1 Yasmina .......... 20:00

• SIDE B
• B1 Sonny's Back .......... 14:20
• B2 Body And Soul .......... 6:00