Live at the Pan-African Festival

by Archie Shepp

Live at the Pan-African Festival cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: BYG Actuel
  • Country: US
  • Length: 46:15
  • Community rating: 4.58/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Sunny Murray, Clifford Thornton, Dave Burrell, Alan Silva, Grachan Moncur III

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A landmark recording of cross-cultural collaboration, this album captures a historic performance at the first Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers. The session finds Archie Shepp's avant-garde ensemble merging with local Algerian and Tuareg musicians, creating a powerful and unprecedented fusion of free jazz and North African folk traditions. It's a raw, joyous, and deeply political statement, a musical embodiment of the festival's spirit of unity and anti-colonialism.

Genres

Descriptors: complex

Tracklist

  1. Brotherhood at Ketchaoua (15:56)
  2. We Have Come Back (Part 1) (31:22)
  3. We Have Come Back (Part 2)

Credits

  • Archie Shepp - Primary Artist, Written-By
  • Lester Bowie - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
  • Duke Ellington - Written-By
  • Irving Mills - Written-By
  • Algeria - Performer
  • Alan Silva - Bass
  • Sunny Murray - Drums
  • Tuareg - Performer
  • Ted Joans - Written-By

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