music.wikisort.org - CompositionAttica Blues is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp. Originally released in 1972 on the Impulse! label, the album title refers to the Attica Prison riots.[6]
1972 studio album by Archie Shepp
Attica Blues |
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Released | 1972 |
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Recorded | January 24–26, 1972 |
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Studio | A&R Recording, New York |
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Genre | Jazz, post-bop, avant-garde jazz, big band, jazz poetry, funk |
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Label | Impulse! AS-9222 |
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Producer | Ed Michel |
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Source | Rating |
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Allmusic |     [1] |
Rolling Stone | favorable[2] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |     [3] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |    [4] |
Pitchfork | 9.3/10[5] |
Reception
The AllMusic review by Steve Huey states: "Attica Blues is one of Shepp's most successful large-group projects, because his skillful handling of so many different styles of black music produces such tremendously groovy results".[7] Stephen Davis of Rolling Stone said that it was "not just a masterpiece of protest: [...] it is more a politico/religious experience, an appeal to higher human consciousness to, for God's sake, help us out of this torment."[2]
Track listing
- All compositions by Archie Shepp, except as indicated
- "Attica Blues" (lyrics by Beaver Harris) – 4:49
- "Invocation: Attica Blues" (Harris) – 0:18
- "Steam, Part 1" – 5:08
- "Invocation to Mr. Parker" (lyrics by Bart Gray) – 3:17
- "Steam, Part 2" – 5:10
- "Blues for Brother George Jackson" – 4:00
- "Invocation: Ballad for a Child" (Harris) – 0:30
- "Ballad for a Child" (lyrics by Harris) – 3:37
- "Good-Bye Sweet Pops" (Cal Massey) – 4:23
- "Quiet Dawn" (Massey) – 6:12
- Recorded at A&R Recording, NYC, January 24–26, 1972 (Track timings slightly differ from one issue to another, due to merging tracks.)
Personnel
- Archie Shepp - tenor saxophone (1, 6, 8, 10) and soprano saxophone (3, 5, 9)
- Brass and reed section on tracks 1, 6, 9 and 10
- Clifford Thornton - cornet
- Roy Burrows, Charles McGhee, Michael Ridley - trumpet
- Charles Greenlee, Charles Stephens, Kiane Zawadi - trombone
- Hakim Jami - euphonium
- Clarence White - alto saxophone
- Roland Alexander, Billy Robinson - tenor saxophone
- James Ware - baritone saxophone
- String section on tracks 1, 3, 5, and 8—10
- Marion Brown - alto saxophone (1, 6), bamboo flute (3), flute (4), percussion (3—5)
- Walter Davis, Jr. - electric piano (1, 6), piano (6, 8—10)
- Dave Burrell - electric piano (3, 5)
- Cornell Dupree - guitar (1, 3, 5, 8)
- Roland Wilson (1, 3, 5–6, 8), Gerald Jemmott (1) - Fender bass
- Jimmy Garrison - bass (3—5, 9, 10)
- Beaver Harris (1, 3, 5–6, 8) - drums
- Ollie Anderson, Nene DeFense, Juma Sultan - percussion (1, 6, 10)
- Vocals
- Henry Hull (1, 8), Joe Lee Wilson (3, 5) - vocals
- William Kunstler (2, 7), Bartholomew Gray (4) - narrator
- Joshie Armstead, Albertine Robertson - backing vocals (1)
- Featured exclusively on tracks 9 and 10, written by Cal Massey
- Romulus Franceschini - conductor and co-arranger
- Cal Massey - fluegelhorn (10)
- Waheeda Massey - vocals (10)
- Billy Higgins - drums
References
- Allmusic review
- Davis, Stephen (August 17, 1972). "Archie Shepp - Attica Blues". Rolling Stone (115). Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 179. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1290. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- Chinen, Nate. "Archie Shepp: Attica Blues Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
- Bergstrom, John (1 April 2014). "Archie Shepp / Attica Blues Orchestra - I Hear the Sound". PopMatters. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- Huey, S. Allmusic Review, accessed June 25, 2009.
External links
Archie Shepp |
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise. |
Leader |
- Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962)
- The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin, 1963)
- Four for Trane (1964)
- Fire Music (1965)
- On This Night (1965)
- New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane, 1965)
- Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966)
- Mama Too Tight (1966)
- The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967)
- For Losers (1968–69)
- Kwanza (1968–69)
- The Way Ahead (1968)
- Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969)
- Black Gipsy (1969)
- Blasé (1969)
- Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969)
- Pitchin Can (1969–70)
- Poem for Malcolm (1969)
- Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969)
- Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970)
- Coral Rock (1970)
- Doodlin' (1970)
- Things Have Got to Change (1971)
- Attica Blues (1972)
- The Cry of My People (1972)
- A Sea of Faces (1975)
- Bijou (1975)
- Body and Soul (Horo, 1975)
- Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975)
- Mariamar (1975)
- Montreux One (1975)
- Montreux Two (1975)
- There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975)
- Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog, 1976)
- Steam (1976)
- Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan, 1977)
- On Green Dolphin Street (1977)
- Duet (and Dollar Brand, 1978)
- Lady Bird (1978)
- Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1980)
- Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980)
- Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof, 1982)
- Soul Song (1982)
- Down Home New York (1984)
- California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985)
- Little Red Moon (1985)
- Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan, 1987)
- Splashes (1987)
- Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988)
- Body and Soul (and Richard Davis, Enja, 1989)
- Blue Ballads (1995)
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