Blue Ballads
1995 studio album by Archie Shepp
Blue Ballads | ||||
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Studio album by Archie Shepp | ||||
Released | 1995 | |||
Recorded | 24–25 November, 1995 | |||
Studio | Clinton Studio "A", New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Venus TKCV-79307 | |||
Archie Shepp chronology | ||||
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Blue Ballads is an album by saxophonist Archie Shepp and his quartet which was recorded in New York City in 1995 and released on the Venus label.[1]
Reception
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AllMusic | [2] |
The AllMusic review by arwulf arwulf called it and its counterparts Black Ballads, and True Ballads "intimate studies in shared introspection...[that] document Shepp's astute exploration of the ballad form during the 1990s...Once again and in all the best ways, Shepp shines in parallel with his contemporary Pharoah Sanders. Both are skilled balladeers as well as free spirits who simply cannot be bottled or pigeonholed".[2]
Track listing
- "Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 6:03
- "More Than You Know" (Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Vincent Youmans) – 7:18
- "Blue in Green" (Bill Evans, Miles Davis) – 7:58
- "Blue and Sentimental" (Count Basie) – 5:12
- "Cry Me a River" (Arthur Hamilton) – 7:54
- "If I Should Lose You" (Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger) – 7:32
- "Alone Together" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) – 10:51
Personnel
Musicians
- Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, vocals
- George Mraz – bass
- John Hicks – piano
- Idris Muhammad – drums
Production
- Tetsuo Hara – producer
- Troy Halderson – engineer
- Brock South – assistant engineer
- Shuji Kitamura – mastering
- Iruka Studio – design
- Dennis Stock – cover photography
References
- ^ Discogs:Blue Ballads: Archie Shepp Quartet accessed October 14, 2018
- ^ a b arwulf, arwulf. Archie Shepp: Blue Ballads – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release,
unless stated otherwise.
unless stated otherwise.
- Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet (1962)
- The House I Live In (and Lars Gullin, 1963)
- Four for Trane (1964)
- Fire Music (1965)
- On This Night (1965)
- New Thing at Newport (split album with John Coltrane, 1965)
- Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco (1966)
- Mama Too Tight (1966)
- The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967)
- For Losers (1968–69)
- Kwanza (1968–69)
- The Way Ahead (1968)
- Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones (1969)
- Black Gipsy (1969)
- Blasé (1969)
- Live at the Pan-African Festival (1969)
- Pitchin Can (1969–70)
- Poem for Malcolm (1969)
- Yasmina, a Black Woman (1969)
- Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble (1970)
- Coral Rock (1970)
- Doodlin' (1970)
- Things Have Got to Change (1971)
- Attica Blues (1972)
- The Cry of My People (1972)
- A Sea of Faces (1975)
- Bijou (1975)
- Body and Soul (Horo, 1975)
- Jazz a Confronto 27 (1975)
- Mariamar (1975)
- Montreux One (1975)
- Montreux Two (1975)
- There's a Trumpet in My Soul (1975)
- Hi-Fly (and Karin Krog, 1976)
- Steam (1976)
- Goin' Home (and Horace Parlan, 1977)
- On Green Dolphin Street (1977)
- Duet (and Dollar Brand, 1978)
- Lady Bird (1978)
- Looking at Bird (and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1980)
- Trouble in Mind (and Horace Parlan, 1980)
- Mama Rose (and Jasper van 't Hof, 1982)
- Soul Song (1982)
- Down Home New York (1984)
- California Meeting: Live on Broadway (1985)
- Little Red Moon (1985)
- Duo Reunion (and Horace Parlan, 1987)
- Splashes (1987)
- Lover Man (and Annette Lowman, 1988)
- Body and Soul (and Richard Davis, Enja, 1989)
- Blue Ballads (1995)
Contemporary
Five
- Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963)
- Consequences (1963)
- Rufus (1963)
- Bill Dixon 7-tette/
Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (1964)
Cecil
Taylor
- Air (1960)
- The World of Cecil Taylor (1960)
- Cell Walk for Celeste (1961)
- New York City R&B (originally Buell Neidlinger, 1961)
- Jumpin' Punkins (1961)
others
- A Love Supreme (John Coltrane, 1964)
- Ascension/The Major Works of John Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1965)
- Echo (Dave Burrell, 1969)
- One Down (Material, 1982)
- You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Frank Zappa, 1982–84)