Archie Shepp
‘I’d take a mediocre album rather than nothing!’: the new music readers want to hear in 2024
Guardian readers are longing for returns by artists from Ariana Grande to Archie Shepp –and even possibly Kate Bush?
Aneesa Ahmed and Guardian readers
23, Jan, 2024 @11:15 AM
Surrealism Beyond Borders review – A raging sea of glorious strangeness
Forget Dalí and Magritte. This sprawling survey captures the extraordinary scope of a global artistic explosion, from fantastical feminists to black power activists to Vodou painter priests
Adrian Searle
22, Feb, 2022 @5:34 PM
Archie Shepp on jazz, race and freedom: 'Institutions continue to abuse power'
At 83, the saxophonist has somewhat mellowed his funkily avant-garde music – but his anger at the racial injustice he has fought all his life remains undimmed
Lanre Bakare
24, Feb, 2021 @1:00 PM
'Open that door or I'll blow it down!' The jazz legends who caused TV mayhem
They sent talkshow host Dick Cavett fleeing with his fingers in his ears and blasted Ed Sullivan with Haitian Fight Song. Fifty years on, the Jazz and People’s Movement are still fighting to be heard
Michael Stewart Foley
09, Oct, 2020 @8:50 AM
Archie Shepp review – soul, skronk and hot gospel organ
The veteran sax player celebrates the art song with yelps, screeches and a fine quintet showcasing vocalist Amina Claudine Myers at the Hammond
John Lewis
20, Nov, 2018 @12:48 PM
Cecil Taylor obituary
Jazz pianist with a radical improvisation style described as one of the most ‘incorrigibly sublime’ figures in the recent history of music
John Fordham
08, Apr, 2018 @3:54 PM
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters box set review – fullest version yet of a jazz touchstone
John Coltrane’s endlessly influential album gets its most complete expansion yet with this 50th anniversary set
John Fordham
10, Dec, 2015 @6:00 PM
Archie Shepp – review
Shepp's fusion of defiant and tender singing and his emotional tenor-sax tone brought the London Jazz festival to a rousing end, writes John Fordham
John Fordham
25, Nov, 2013 @6:06 PM
Archie Shepp: Attica Blues Orchestra Live: I Hear the Sound – review
Archie Shepp and a spectacular band remake his classic Attica Blues album with powerful results, writes John Fordham
John Fordham
21, Nov, 2013 @10:15 PM
Joachim Kühn/Archie Shepp: Voodoo Sense – review
Germany's elder statesman of jazz piano delivers an unruly but uplifting set, writes John Fordham
John Fordham
22, Aug, 2013 @10:45 PM
Archie Shepp/ Napoleon Maddox: Phat Jam in Milano
Maddox's vocal repertoire of cymbal hisses, resonant thuds and motorbike reverberations mesh well with Drake's superb drumming, says John Fordham
John Fordham
14, May, 2009 @11:04 PM
CD: Archie Shepp, Gemini
(Archie Ball)
John Fordham
20, Jul, 2007 @10:59 PM
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