Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp worked with the legendary John Coltrane in the 1960s and is a direct descendant of his legacy. A soul survivor of the avant-garde movement, Shepp has extended the boundaries of jazz by constantly going back to its folkloric and ancestral sources. On this CD, Shepp is joined by two avant-garde fellow travelers: bassist Richard Davis and drummer Sunny Murray , along with percussionist Leopoldo Flemming. On the title track, written by the great W.C. Handy, Shepp and Davis deliver a down-home tenor sax-bass duet, with Shepp's articulate bone-deep tenor tones matched by his earthy vocals. Shepp and Davis form another dynamic duo on Kenny Dorham's Brazilian-blended jazz standard "Blue Bossa" and Billie Holiday's ballad "God Bless the Child." The quartet delivers some dynamic Afro-diasporic dances on "Et Moi," the thumb piano pulsated "Limbuke," and the ancestrally anthemed "Omega." Although this CD is bathed in the influences of Coltrane's A Love Supreme, Archie Shepp has taken his language and made it his own. --Eugene Holley Jr.
St. Louis Blues,Archie Shepp,Jazz Magnet,Avant-Garde Jazz,Free Jazz,Jazz,Jazz Music,Pop
Jazz Music:
- Stage Door Canteen: The Songs of World War II
- Suite Afro Consolacao [Import]
- T.S.: Craig Taborn Trio
- That Certain Party [Import]
- The 1976 Solo Keyboard Album
- The Gene Harris Trio Plus One [Live] [SACD]
- The Hat's Back
- The Rarely Heard 'Live' Recordings of Glenn Miller & His Orchestra, Vol. 3: My Devotion [Live]
- The Secret Life of a W.A.S.P.
- Thrush Hour
Jazz Music
Groovy: A Collection of Rare Jazzy Club Tracks, Vo [Import]
Friends from Brazil 2001 [Import]
Hamburger Concerto [Original recording remastered] [Import] [Live]
Come Rain Or Come Shine [Import]
link-web.net Music Review: 50 Classical Highlights: Romantic Piano