Archie Shepp

• JAPANESE IMPORT

• IMPULSE - 60th ANNIVERSARY

• FREE JAZZ SAXOPHONE COLLECTION

• LIMITED EDITION SHM-CD (Super High Material CD)!

This big band session collects all of Archie Shepp's virtues as a composer, saxophonist and jazz dramaticist and puts them into one glorious package. Like the African-American holiday this album is named after, it's an imposing hybrid form, a sprawling mass of experimental jazz circa 1969 sharply peppered with funk, blues, and myriad musical evocations of an imaginary "Africa."

PERSONNEL:

• Archie Shepp - soprano & tenor sax, vocals
• Martin Banks - trumpet
• Andy Bey - piano
• Walter Booker - bass
• Dave Burrell - organ, piano
• Beaver Bushnell - bass
• Joe Chambers - drums
• Charles Davis - baritone sax
• Matthew Gee - trombone
• Beaver Harris - drums
• Robin Kenyatta - flute
• Grachan Moncur III - trombone
• Jimmy Owens - trumpet
• Bert Payne - guitar
• Cecil Payne - baritone sax
• Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - drums
• Wally Richardson - guitar
• Clarence Sharpe - alto sax
• Woody Shaw - trumpet
• James Spaulding - alto sax
• Leon Thomas - vocals
• Tasha Thomas - vocals
• Doris Troy - vocals
• Cedar Walton - piano
• Wilbur Ware - bass
• Albert Winston - bass

New York City, 1968 & 1969

TRACKS:

• 01 Back Back
• 02 Spoo Pee Doo
• 03 New Africa
• 04 Slow Drag
• 05 Bakai