Live in San Francisco

by Archie Shepp

Live in San Francisco cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1966
  • Label: Impulse!
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:15:07
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded at the Both/And Club, this intense set captures the saxophonist seamlessly blending fierce free jazz improvisations with deeply political, theatrical spoken-word recitations. The performance features an incredibly explosive rhythm section and notably includes a massive, deconstructed rendition of 'In a Sentimental Mood'. The record firmly establishes his role not just as a musical innovator, but as a primary, militant intellectual voice within the avant-garde movement.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. Keep Your Heart Right (1:18)
  2. Lady Sings The Blues (7:34)
  3. Sylvia (5:38)
  4. The Wedding (2:55)
  5. Wherever June Bugs Go (10:28)
  6. In A Sentimental Mood (6:18)
  7. Things Ain't What They Used To Be (7:59)
  8. Three For A Quarter, One For A Dime (32:54)

Credits

  • Archie Shepp - primary artist, tenor saxophone, piano, piano [solo], written-by
  • Donald Garrett - bass
  • Lewis Worrell - bass
  • Beaver Harris - drums
  • Roswell Rudd - trombone, written-by
  • Herbie Nichols - arranged by
  • Oley Speaks - written-by
  • Duke Ellington - written-by
  • Irving Mills - Written-By
  • Manny Kurtz - Written-By

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