Archie Shepp Quartet - Deja Vu (2LP, Japanese edition)
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Archie Shepp - tenor sax [click here to see more vinyl featuring Archie Shepp]
Harold Mabern - piano
George Mraz - bass
Billy Drummond - drums
Written by Sidney Bechet (A1), Michel Legrand (A2), Vernon Duke (B1), E.Y. « Yip » Harburg (B1), Charles Trenet (B2), Hubert Giraud (C2), Alan Jay Lerner (D2), Frederick Loewe (D2), Archie Shepp (D3)
2 LP, standard sleeve
Limited Edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 33RPM
Size : 12”
Venus Hyper Magnum Sound Direct Mix Stereo
Studio
Record Press : Japanese Pressing
Label : Venus
Original Label : Venus
Recorded at "The Studio" in New York on June 11 and 12, 2001
Engineered by Katherine Miller
Produced by Todd Barkan
Mixed and mastered by Tetsuo Hara, by Shuji Kitamura
Design by Taz
Photography by John Abbott, Jean-Loup Sieff
Originally released in March 2003
Reissued in 2024
Tracks :
Side A:
- Petite Fleur
- What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life?
Side B:
- April In Paris
- L' Ame Des Poetes
Side C:
- C'est Si Bon
- Sous Le Ciel De Paris
Side D:
- Les Feuilles Mortes
- Gigi
- Deja Vu
Reviews :
"Archie Shepp has been at various times a feared firebrand and radical, soulful throwback and contemplative veteran. He was viewed in the '60s as perhaps the most articulate and disturbing member of the free generation, a published playwright willing to speak on the record in unsparing, explicit fashion about social injustice and the anger and rage he felt.
His tenor sax solos were searing, harsh, and unrelenting, played with a vivid intensity. But in the '70s, Shepp employed a fatback/swing-based R&B approach, and in the '80s he mixed straight bebop, ballads, and blues pieces displaying little of the fury and fire from his earlier days. Shepp studied dramatic literature at Goddard College, earning his degree in 1959.
He played alto sax in dance bands and sought theatrical work in New York. But Shepp switched to tenor, playing in several free jazz bands. He worked with Cecil Taylor, co-led groups with Bill Dixon and played in the New York Contemporary Five with Don Cherry and John Tchicai. He led his own bands in the mid-'60s with Roswell Rudd, Bobby Hutcherson, Beaver Harris, and Grachan Moncur III.
His Impulse albums included poetry readings and quotes from James Baldwin and Malcolm X. Shepp's releases sought to paint an aural picture of African-American life, and included compositions based on incidents like Attica or folk sayings.
He also produced plays in New York, among them The Communist in 1965 and Lady Day: A Musical Tragedy in 1972 with trumpeter/composer Cal Massey. But starting in the late '60s, the rhetoric was toned down and the anger began to disappear from Shepp's albums.
He substituted a more celebratory, and at times reflective attitude. Shepp turned to academia in the late '60s, teaching at SUNY in Buffalo, then the University of Massachusetts. He was named an associate professor there in 1978.
Shepp toured and recorded extensively in Europe during the '80s, cutting some fine albums with Horace Parlan, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and Jasper van't Hof. Shepp continued to tour and record throughout the '90s and '00s.
Moving from provocative free-jazz icon in his youth to elder jazz journeyman in his latter years, Shepp has appeared on a variety of labels over the years including Impulse, Byg, Arista/Freedom, Phonogram, Steeplechase, Denon, Enja, EPM, and Soul Note." AllMusic Biography by Thom Jurek
Ratings :
AllMusic : 4 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.86 / 5