• INCLUDES 10 bonus tracks
• 12-PAGE BOOKLET
This release presents the unique quartet recordings by Archie Shepp and Bill Dixon. As a bonus, we have included a long unavailable sextet studio session by Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five and an interesting septet session by Bill Dixon.
PERSONNEL:
- Archie Shepp - (tenor sax)
- Bill Dixon - (trumpet)
- Don Moore - (bass)
- Paul Cohen - (drums)
- Reggie Workman - (bass)
- Howard McRae- (drums) replace Moore and Cohen on “Peace”.
New York, October 1962.
- (*) BONUS TRACKS:
- [05-07]: ARCHIE SHEPP AND THE NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY FIVE: Archie Shepp (ts), Don Cherry (pocket cornet; 0n 7), Ted Curson (tp/piccolo tp; on 5 & 6), John Tchicai (as), Ronnie Boykins (b), Sunny Murray (d).
- New York, February 5, 1964.
- [08-14]: BILL DIXON SEPTET:
- Bill Dixon (tp), George Barrow (ts), Ken McIntyre(as & oboe), Howard Johnson (tuba & bar), David Izenzon & Hal Dodson (b), Howard McRae (d).
- New York, February 4, 1964.
TRACKS:
- 01 TRIO
- 02 QUARTET
- 03 SOMEWHERE
- 04 PEACE
- 05 WHERE POPPIES BLOOM (WHERE POPPIES BLOW) (*)
- 06 LIKE A BLESSED BABY LAMB (*)
- 07 CONSEQUENCES (*)
- 08 WINTER SONG 1964 SECTION I (*)
- 09 WINTER SONG 1964 SECTION II (*)
- 10 WINTER SONG 1964 SECTION III (*)
- 11 WINTER SONG 1964 SECTION IV (*)
- 12 WINTER SONG 1964 SECTION V (*)
- 13 WINTER SONG 1964 CODA (*)
- 14 THE 12TH DECEMBER (*)