{"id":56532,"date":"2024-05-24T08:24:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micklabriola.com\/?p=56532"},"modified":"2024-05-24T08:24:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:24:46","slug":"archie-sheep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micklabriola.com\/archie-sheep-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Archie Shepp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archie Shepp<\/b> (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz<\/a> saxophonist, educator and playwright who since the 1960s has played a central part in the development of avant-garde jazz<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale<\/a>, Florida, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/a>. He began playing banjo<\/a> with his father, then studied piano<\/a> and saxophone<\/a> while attending high school in Germantown. He studied drama at Goddard College<\/a> from 1955 to 1959.<\/sup><\/p>\n

He played in a Latin jazz<\/a> band for a short time before joining the band of avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor<\/a>. Shepp’s first recording under his own name, Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet<\/a><\/i>, was released on Savoy Records<\/a> in 1962 and featured a composition by Ornette Coleman<\/a>.<\/sup> In 1962, he performed with Dixon at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students<\/a> in Helsinki, Finland.<\/sup> Along with alto saxophonist John Tchicai<\/a> and trumpeter Don Cherry<\/a>, he formed the New York Contemporary Five<\/a>.<\/sup> John Coltrane<\/a>‘s admiration for Shepp led to recordings for Impulse! Records<\/a>, the first of which was Four for Trane<\/a><\/i> in 1964, an album of mainly Coltrane compositions on which he was joined by Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd<\/a>, trumpeter Alan Shorter<\/a>, bassist Reggie Workman<\/a> and drummer Charles Moffett<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\n