Archie Shepp - Fire Music To Mama Too Tight Revisited (2022)

Tracklist

01. Hambone
02. Los Olvidados
03. Prelude To A Kiss
04. The Girl From Ipanema
05. Malcom, Malcom, Semper Malcom
06. A Portrait Of Robert Thompson (As A Young Man)
07. Mama Too Tight
08. Theme For Ernie
09. Basheer



Jost may have had Fire Music and Mama Too Tight in mind when he suggested that by 1965 Shepp spoke “basically two musical languages whose grammar and syntax had hardly anything in common.” This reflected the commentariat’s insistence that a chasm existed between free jazz and mainstream jazz practices, and, implicitly, between the New Wave in Jazz and the New Breed led by James Brown. What was revolutionary about Shepp’s music is that it rejected the underlying binary, and embraced an inclusive approach.

Archie Shepp - (tenor saxophone)
Marion Brown - (alto saxophone)
Ted Curson - (trumpet)
Joseph Orange - (trombone)
Reggie Johnson - (double bass)
Joe Chambers - (drums)

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