Archie Shepp

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Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator known for his avant-garde style and politically charged works in the 1960s and beyond.

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instanceOf avant-garde jazz musician
composer
educator
human
jazz musician
saxophonist
activeYearsStart 1960
associatedWith Art Ensemble of Chicago
Bill Dixon
Cecil Taylor
Horace Parlan
John Coltrane
Lars Gullin
Max Roach
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1937-05-24
employer University of Massachusetts Amherst
familyName Shepp
fieldOfWork composition
jazz performance
music education
genre avant-garde jazz
free jazz
jazz
givenName Archie
instrument soprano saxophone
tenor saxophone
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement avant-garde jazz movement
free jazz movement
name Archie Shepp self-link
notableFor integration of African and African-American musical traditions
politically charged compositions
socially conscious lyrics
notableWork Attica Blues
Fire Music
Four for Trane
Kwanza
Live in San Francisco
Mama Too Tight
On This Night
The Magic of Ju-Ju
The Way Ahead
Yasmina, a Black Woman
occupation composer
educator
musician
saxophonist
placeOfBirth Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
politicalOrientation left-wing
recordLabel BYG Actuel
Enja Records
Impulse! Records
SteepleChase Records

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Alan Shorter collaboratedWith Archie Shepp
Impulse! Records notableArtist Archie Shepp
Abbey Lincoln collaboratedWith Archie Shepp
Ronnie Boykins associatedAct Archie Shepp
Sunny Murray collaboratedWith Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp name Archie Shepp self-link
Marion Brown associatedAct Archie Shepp