SCCD 36013 The House I Live In / Archie Shepp/Lars Gullin Quintet Saxophonist and playwright Archie Shepp (b. May 24, 1937 in Fort Lauderdale. FL) then 26 years old visited Copenhagen in the fall of 1963 as a member of the famed New York Contemporary Five. Though Shepp at that time was the passionate practitioner […]
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Archie Shepp, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen – Looking At Bird (SCCD 31149)
SCCD 31149 Looking At Bird / Archie Shepp & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen “… a serious meditation in the Parker universe: Shepp accompanied only by the extraordinary bass of intuitive Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen… The two musicians here in this Parker revisited, however, do not get lost in the immense shadow of the idol …” (Télérama) 1. […]
Archie Shepp, Horace Parlan – Trouble In Mind (SCCD 31139)
SCCD 31139 Trouble In Mind / Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan Three years after the sensational spiritual recording by this duo “Goin’ Home” (SCCD 31079) producer Nils Winther had Archie and Horace in the studio again. The theme this time was traditional blues. Once again the Shepp-Parlan duo made one of the best selling SteepleChase […]
Archie Shepp, Jasper van’t Hof – Mama Rose (SCCD 31169)
SCCD 31169 Mama Rose / Archie Shepp & Jasper Van’t Hof Following the highly successful duo series by Archie Shepp (with Horace Parlan SCCD 31079 “Goin’ Home”, SCCD 31139 “Trouble In Mind” and with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen SCCD 31149 “Looking At Bird”), here with Holland’s leading keyboard player Jasper Van’t Hof the great saxophonist mesmerised […]
Archie Shepp, Horace Parlan – Goin’ Home (SCCD 31079)
SCCD 31079 Goin' Home / Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan When the album by this unlikely duet of Shepp and Parlan playing hymns and spirituals came out in 1978 for the first time, it was an instant success and has become a classic since then. It is a success of unique theme (by the producer […]