Archie Shepp / Bill Dixon Quartet

by Archie Shepp & Bill Dixon

Archie Shepp / Bill Dixon Quartet cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1963
  • Label: Savoy
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.91/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An essential early document of the free jazz revolution, this split session captures the fiery emergence of Archie Shepp's impassioned tenor against Bill Dixon's abstract trumpet lines. It operates in an incredibly raw, acoustic space where hard bop firmly fractures into avant-garde improvisation.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, instrumental, acoustic, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. Trio
  2. Peace
  3. Quartet
  4. Somewhere

Credits

  • The Archie Shepp-Bill Dixon Quartet - primary artist
  • Don Moore - bass
  • Reggie Workman - bass
  • Bill Dixon - design, liner notes, producer, trumpet, flugelhorn, written-by
  • Howard McRae - drums
  • Paul Cohen - drums
  • Art Crist - engineer [recording engineer]
  • Paul Cady - lacquer cut by
  • Archie Shepp - liner notes, producer, tenor saxophone
  • Irwin Goldstein - photography by [cover photography]
  • Ornette Coleman - written-by
  • Leonard Bernstein - written-by

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