Marion Brown - Three for Shepp to Gesprächsfetzen Revisited (2024)

Revisited exists to enable important recordings to be hear anew following State-of-the-Art sound restoration

Brown was already defying categorisation in 1966 when he recorded Three For Shepp, whose six tracks open Three For Shepp To Gespächsfetzen Revisited. Brown’s opening “New Blues” and Shepp’s closing “Delicado,” though compelling, are relatively orthodox expressions of mid 1960s New Thing. The four tracks they bookend, however, are distinctive even today.

Brown’s exquisite “Fortunato,” though it sounds like nothing Pharoah Sanders ever wrote, inhabits similarly pretty terrain as Sanders’ astral-jazz manifesto Tauhid’s “Upper Egypt & Lower Egypt” and “Japan.” Of the Shepp tunes, “West India,” with its Caribbean flourishes and calypsonian alto solo, is a first taste of what would become an ongoing strand in Brown’s music. Chris May.

THREE FOR SHEPP
Marion Brown - (alto saxophone)
Grachan Moncur III - (trombone)
Dave Burrell - (piano on tracks 1–3)
Stanley Cowell - (piano 0n tracks 4–6)
Norris Jones (Sirone) - (double bass)
Bobby Capp - (drums on tracks 1–3)
Beaver Harris - (drums on tracks 4–6)