Archie Shepp "Blues For Brother George Jackson" (1972)

From his 1972 album "Attica Blues"

Archie Shepp (born Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 24, 1937) is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the black race, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and his collaborations with his "New Thing" contemporaries, most notably Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.

Attica Blues is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp. Originally released in 1972 on the Impulse! label, the album title is a direct reference to the Attica Prison riots which resulted after the death of prisoner George Jackson who had been shot to death by prison officers.


Album Peronnel:

Archie Shepp: tenor and soprano saxophones
Clifford Thornton: cornet
Roy Burrows, Charles McGhee, Michael Ridley: trumpet
Cal Massey: fluegelhorn
Charles Greenlee, Charles Stephens, Kiane Zawadi: trombone
Hakim Jami: euphonium
Clarence White: alto saxophone
Marion Brown: alto saxophone, flute, bamboo flute, percussion
Roland Alexander, Billy Robinson: tenor saxophone
James Ware: baritone saxophone
John Blake, Leroy Jenkins, Lakshinarayana Shankar: violin
Ronald Lipscomb, Calo Scott: cello
Dave Burrell: electric piano
Walter Davis, Jr.: electric piano, piano
Cornell Dupree: guitar
Jimmy Garrison, Gerald Jemmott, Roland Wilson: bass
Ollie Anderson, Nene DeFense, Juma Sultan: percussion
Beaver Harris, Billy Higgins: drums
Joshie Armstead, Henry Hull, Waheeda Massey, Albertine Robertson, Joe Lee Wilson: vocal
Bartholomew Gray, William Kunstler: narrator
RoMas: arranger
Romulus Franceschini: conductor

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• Archie
• Shepp
• Blues
• For
• Brother
• George
• Jackson
• Attica
• Jazz

[jarbon5]

Loving this:)

[zarofrench]

MAGNIFIQUE!I was born this year,1972..,when it was released..Archie Shepp is a genius.Go and see him Live.I had the great pleasure 2 see him in ORLEANS(FRANCE) IN 2000 and i simply loved the experience!

What a presence on stage,what a wonderful musical journey ;-).......

[slowdream101]

I really enjoy this stuff

[slowdream101]

Good good good I dig it themost

[adewale007]

Music with class, brains, style and bollocks. Big love from the UK.

[journeyisseperate]

I've got a lot of time for this.