Archie Shepp
Real Name: | Archie Vernon Shepp |
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Profile: | Archie Shepp, born May 24, 1937 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is an American jazz saxophonist. He mainly plays tenor saxophone but also soprano saxophone, clarinet and piano; he is also a singer, jazz composer and playwright. He is also known for his Afrocentric positions in the 1960s, denouncing the injustices suffered by African-Americans, within the New York Contemporary Five as well as through various collaborations with Horace Parlan, and his contemporaries from the New Thing at Newport, mainly Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane. He is one of the musical figures of the Black Arts Movement. |
Sites: | archieball.com , archieshepp.org , Wikipedia , Imdb |
In Groups: | Archie Shepp - Chet Baker Quintet, Archie Shepp - Horace Parlan Duo, Archie Shepp Band, Archie Shepp Quartet, Archie Shepp Quintet, Archie Shepp Sextet, Archie Shepp/Lars Gullin Quintet, Archie Shepp/Michel Marre Quintet, Cecil Taylor All Stars, Don Cherry Quintet, Gil Evans And His Orchestra, John Coltrane Orchestra, Just In Time Quartet, Takashi Mizuhashi & His Friends, The Archie Shepp Group, The Archie Shepp Septet, The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet, The Cecil Taylor Group, The Cecil Taylor Quartet, The Cecil Taylor Unit |
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