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Archie Shepp Quartet Part 2 | Arthaus 107055

Archie Shepp Quartet Part 2

Label: Arthaus

Cat No: 107055

Barcode: 0807280705591

Format: DVD - PAL

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Jazz

Release Date: 4th January 2011

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Artists

Archie Shepp Quartet

Artists

Archie Shepp Quartet

About

In their series of Jazz greats, Arthaus Musik releases a DVD of the second part of a jazz night with famed sax player Archie Shepp and his Quartet. The concert took place in Turin in 1977.

Archie Shepp was a popular topic of conversation among jazz fans during the 1970s as it was becoming increasingly clear that a profound change was taking place in his approach to music and even his physical appearance. For years he had been the embodiment of black resistance, dressing in traditional African garments and protesting against the suppression of black people. But now he was wearing suits and had given up his free style of playing in favour of interpretations of well-known pieces from the jazz tradition.

Inevitably, the changes upset some people and pleased others. But Shepp never made it easy for people to judge him and, ignoring the talk, he continued along the straight path which had already led him to a place among the jazz greats while he was still a young man.

Actually Shepp did not really break with his musical past. Before he became an avant-gardist Shepp played R&B and modern jazz and – as the younger Shepp once said: “New Jazz is no different from old jazz. There is really nothing new in it, if you set aside a message that couldn’t have been formulated earlier. This message is the truth. New Jazz tells the story of a people’s suffering. It talks about emancipation, the destruction of the ghettos, fascism. I’m a black jazz musician, a black father, an anti-fascist.

And in interview with jazz journalist Christian Broecking in 1993 he explained: “When I played Free Jazz, that pleased a lot of critics. But it’s a music black people as good as never hear. Then when I turned more to my people, the grumble started up that my audience was entirely white. Added to that, I’d always had a clear message for Afro-Americans, and still have, but I never reached them.

Nothing could underline the continuity in Shepp’s career more effectively than this 1977 concert with Siegfried Kessler, Cameron Brown and Clifford Jordan, now being issued by Arthaus Musik in cooperation with Italian Television RAI.

Recorded live at the Teatro Alfieri, Torino, 1977.

Contents:
- Things Have Got To Change (Calvin Massey)
- Sophisticated Lady (Duke Ellington)
- Steam (Archie Shepp)
- Invitation (Bronislaw Kaper)
- Sonny's Back (Grachan Moncur III)

Archie Shepp Quartet:
- Archie Shepp (saxophone)
- Siegfried Kessler (piano)
- Cameron Brown (bass)
- Clifford Jarvis (drums)

Sound Format: PCM Mono
Picture Format: 4:3
DVD Format: DVD 5, PAL
Menu Language: GB
Running Time: 68 mins
FSK: 0
Barcode: 807280705591
Available in Europe, Japan, South Africa, French Speaking Territories

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