Things Have Got to Change
by Archie Shepp
- Type: Album
- Released: 1971
- Label: Impulse!
- Country: United States
- Length: 37:41
- Community rating: 3.84/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Archie Shepp delivers a potent, politically charged statement integrating African percussion and choral vocals into avant-garde jazz. The expansive, suite-like compositions channel the urgency of the civil rights struggle into intense, spiritual improvisations.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, improvisation, instrumental, experimental, political
Tracklist
- Money Blues (18:18)
- Dr. King, The Peaceful Warrior (2:29)
- Things Have Got To Change (16:53)
Credits
- Archie Shepp - primary artist, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, written-by
- James Spaulding - alto saxophone, piccolo flute
- Anita Branham - backing vocals
- Anita Shepp - backing vocals
- Barbara Parsons - backing vocals
- Claudette Brown - backing vocals
- Ernestina Parsons - backing vocals
- Jody Shayne - backing vocals
- Beaver Harris - Written-By
- Cal Massey - Electric Piano, Written-By
- RoMas - Arranged By
- Calo Scott - Cello
- Leroy Jenkins - Violin