Archie Shepp Quartet: Gemini

Archie Shepp, saxophone; Wayne Dockery, bass; Steve McCraven, drums; Tom McClung, piano; Stéphane Guéry, guitar; Chuck D, vocal; Amina Claudine Myers, piano & vocal; Ronnie Burrage, drums; Cameron Brown, bass

CD1
The Reverse (Alternate Version 1) / Revolution (Mama Rose) / Burning Bright / Trippin' / Time Stood Still / Intertwining Spirits / La Manzana / Eva / Pannonica / The Reverse / The Reverse (Alternate Version 2)
CD 2
Hope Two / Call Him / Do You Want To Be Saved / Ujaama / Rest Enough

Saxophone player, composer, pianist, singer, politically committed poet, playwright, Archie Shepp is a legend.
Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale in Florida.
He grew up in Philadelphia, studied piano and saxophone and attended high school in Germantown; he went to college, became involved with theatre, met writers and poets, among them, Leroy Jones and wrote: «The Communist», an allegorical play about the situation of black Americans. In the late fifties, Archie Shepp also met the most radical musicians of the time: Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Jimmy Garrison, Ted Curson, Beaver Harris ... his political consciousness found an expression in plays and theatrical productions which barely allowed him to make a living. In the beginning sixties he met Cecil Taylor and did two recordings with him which were determining.

Price: $35.98