Archie Shepp: Kwanza - Verve By Request Series [Vinyl 1LP 180g]

Soul Jazz / AACM / Avant Jazz
premiera polska: 2023-05-12
kontynent: Ameryka Północna
kraj: USA
opis:
Opis Wydawcy:
To nagranie z 1969 roku (wydane 5 lat później) łączy w sobie free jazz blues i funku z afrykańskiej perspektywy big-bandowej oprawie. Gwiazdorska sekcja dęta, w skład której wchodzą James Spaulding i Charles Davis na saksofonie oraz puzonista Graham Moncur III, wiodą prym w wyróżniających się utworach, takich jak „New Africa” i „Spoo Pee Doo”.
Seria Verve By Request to kolekcja 180-gramowych winyli, tłoczonych w Third Man Studio w Detroit.

Editor's Info:
These 1969 recordings (released 5 years later) combine Shepp’s free jazz bonafides and a blend of blues and funk through an African lens, all in a big band setting. The all-star brass section, featuring James Spaulding and Charles Davis on sax along with trombonist Graham Moncur III lead the way on stand outs including “New Africa” and “Spoo Pee Doo.” This Verve By Request LP features transfers from analog tapes and remastered on 180-gram vinyl, pressed at Third Man in Detroit.


All About Jazz
Kwanza catches Shepp at his most funked up and glorious. It was recorded over four sessions, between September 1968 and August 1969, a time when psychedelia and Blackism's twin recalibrations of jazz convention were at their most fervid. Primal R&B values were fascinating the avant garde, along with what would now be called world music and an avowed, Maoist anti-intellectualism (the latter essentially an affectation, and one hilariously observed by Tom Wolfe in Radical Chic And Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970).
by Chris May

muzycy:
Archie Shepp: tenor saxophone, vocal [3,5]; Jimmy Owens: trumpet (1,3,5); Martin Banks: trumpet (2); Woody Shaw: trumpet (4); Grachan Moncur 111: trombone (1,3,5); Matthew Gee: trombone: (4); James Spaulding: alto saxophone (1); Clarence Sharpe: alto saxophone (4); Charles Davis: baritone saxophone (1,3,5); Cecil Payne: baritone saxophone (4); Robin Kenyatta: flute (2); Dave Burrell: organ (1), piano (3); Andrew Bey: piano (2); Cedar Walton: piano (4); Wally Richardson: guitar (1); Bert Payne: guitar (2); Bob Busnell: bass (1); Albert Winston: bass (2); Walter Booker: bass (3,5); Wilbur Ware: bass (4); Bernard Purdie: drums (1); Beaver Harris: drums (2,3,5); Joe Chambers: drums (4); Leon Thomas, Tasha Thomas, Doris Troy: vocals (2)

utwory:
A1. Back Back
A2. Spoo Pee Doo
A3. New Africa
B1. Slow Drag
B2. Bakai

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