Archie Shepp - Kwanza Album

Tracklist

1	New Africa Baritone Saxophone – Charles Davis Bass – Walter BookerComposed By – Grachan Moncur IIIDrums – Beaver HarrisPiano – Dave BurrellTenor Saxophone, Vocals – Archie SheppTrombone – Grachan Moncur IIITrumpet – Jimmy Owens	12:49
2	Slow Drag Alto Saxophone – Clarence SharpeBaritone Saxophone – Cecil PayneBass – Wilbur WareComposed By – Archie SheppDrums – Joe ChambersPiano – Cedar WaltonTenor Saxophone – Archie SheppTrombone – Matthew GeeTrumpet – Woody Shaw	10:08
3	Bakai Baritone Saxophone – Charles Davis Bass – Walter BookerComposed By – Cal MasseyDrums – Beaver HarrisPiano – Dave BurrellTenor Saxophone, Vocals – Archie SheppTrombone – Grachan Moncur IIITrumpet – Jimmy Owens	9:57
4	Back Back Alto Saxophone – James SpauldingBaritone Saxophone – Charles Davis Bass – Bob BushnellComposed By – Archie SheppDrums – Bernard PurdieGuitar – Wally RichardsonOrgan – Dave BurrellTenor Saxophone – Archie SheppTrombone – Grachan Moncur IIITrumpet – Jimmy Owens	5:45
5	Spoo Pee Doo Bass – Albert WinstonComposed By – Archie SheppDrums – Beaver HarrisFlute – Robin KenyattaGuitar – Bert PaynePiano – Andrew BeyTenor Saxophone – Archie SheppTrumpet – Martin BanksVocals – Doris Troy, Leon Thomas, Tasha Thomas	2:37

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
AS-9262	Archie Shepp	Kwanza ‎(LP, Album, Quad)	Impulse!	AS-9262	US	1974
AS-9262	Archie Shepp	Kwanza ‎(LP, Album, Quad, Gat)	ABC Impulse!	AS-9262	US	1974
MVCZ-124	Archie Shepp	Kwanza ‎(CD, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Pap)	Impulse!	MVCZ-124	Japan	1997
AS-9262	Archie Shepp	Kwanza ‎(LP, Gat)	ABC Impulse!	AS-9262	France	1974
LP-0114	Archie Shepp	Kwanza ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	ABC Impulse!, Mediterraneo	LP-0114	Spain	1976

Credits

• Art Direction [Reissue] – Hollis King
• Design [Album] – Tim Bryant
• Design [Reissue] – Kazumi Matsumoto
• Engineer – Bob Simpson (tracks: 1, 2), Dick Weissman (tracks: 3, 5), Ernie Oelrich (tracks: 4)
• Engineer [Re-mix] – Dominic Lumetta, Zack Zenor
• Liner Notes – Emikan Sudan
• Mastered By – Bob Irwin, Jayme Pieruzzi
• Photography By – Phil Melnick
• Producer – Ed Michel (tracks: 4)
• Producer, Supervised By – Bob Thiele (tracks: 1 to 3, 5)
• Reissue Producer – Bryan Koniarz

Notes

Original LP issue: Impulse AS-9262 ( 1974 )

Track 1 recorded February 17, 1969, at RCA Studios, New York City.
Track 2 recorded September 9, 1968, at RCA Studios, New York City.
Tracks 3 & 5 recorded February 26, 1969, at National Recording Studios, New York City.
Track 4 recorded August 26, 1969, at RCA Studios, New York City.

(P) 1974 The Verve Music Group
(C) 2006 The Verve Music Group
Made in the EU

Barcodes

• Barcode: 6 02517 05039 6

Companies

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – The Verve Music Group
• Copyright (c) – The Verve Music Group
• Recorded At – RCA Studios, New York
• Recorded At – National Recording Studios, New York City
• Remixed At – The Village Recorder
• Remastered At – Sundazed Studios

Video

Album

Kwanza is an album by Archie Shepp released on Impulse in 1974. The album contains tracks recorded from September 1968 to August 1969 by Shepp with four different ensembles. All compositions by Archie Shepp except as indicated. Back Back - 5:45. Spoo Pee Doo - 2:38. New Africa Grachan Moncur III - 12:50. Slow Drag - 10:09. Bakai Cal Massey - 9:59. Kwanza is a curious Archie Shepp recording. Released in 1969 on Impulse, it features cuts recorded between September 1968 and August 1969 with an assortment of lineups. Four of the album's five cuts were produced by Bob Thiele, and one, Slow Drag, by Ed Michel. Songs in album Archie Shepp - Kwanza 1974. Archie Shepp - Back Back. Archie Shepp - Spoo Pee Doo. Archie Shepp - New Africa. Archie Shepp - Slow Drag. Archie Shepp - Bakai. Total votes: 2. Other albums by Archie Shepp. Archie Shepp, Philly Joe Jones. Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones. Archie Shepp. Archie Shepp A Massy U-Jaama Unite. Guitar Town Music. Ocean Bridges. 2020 Album of 1963. The Early Albums Collection. Archie Shepp & The New York Contemporary Five: Sound Barrier. Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary Five. Archie Shepp, The New York Contemporary Five. The New York Contemporary Five. En Concert. Listen free to Archie Shepp Kwanza Back Back, Spoo Dee Doo and more. 5 tracks 41:38. Just better. 1 Reception. 2 Track listing. 3 Personnel. 4 References. Kwanza catches Shepp at his most funked up and glorious. It was recorded over four sessions, between September 1968 and August 1969, a time when psychedelia and Blackism's twin recalibrations of jazz convention were at their most fervid. Primal R&B values were fascinating the avant-garde, along with what would now be called world music and an avowed, Maoist anti-intellectualism the latter essentially an affectation, and one hilariously observed by Tom Wolfe in Radical Chic And Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. Shepp, though himself an intellectual, was. ARCHIE SHEPP - Kwanza. Jazz music community with review and forums. Album 1974. Filed under Progressive Big Band By ARCHIE SHEPP. Archie Shepp Format: Audio CD. Kwanza offers a nice collection of tracks recorded by Shepp in 1968 and 1969 for Impulse, where the saxophonist is accompanied by a large assortment of performers. This album is a thematic exploration of Africa, with Shepp expressing his compositional ability with characteristic cultural and artistic feeling. The creative combination of artsy vocal arrangements and instrumental improvisation come together to produce one of Shepp's more theatrical releases, behind only 1972's Attica Blues. Kwanza, 1974. Back Back, 05:45. Spoo Pee Doo, 02:37