Archie Shepp discography

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Archie Shepp discography.

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Discography

As leader/co-leader

Recording dateTitleLabelYear releasedNotes
1962-10 Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet Savoy 1962
1963-11 The House I Live In SteepleChase 1980Live with the Lars Gullin Quintet
1964-08 Four for Trane Impulse! 1965
1965-02,
1965-03		 Fire Music Impulse!1965
1965-07 New Thing at Newport Impulse!1966Live split album with John Coltrane
1965-03,
1965-08		 On This Night Impulse!1965
1966-02 Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco Impulse!1966Live
1966-02Three for a Quarter, One for a DimeImpulse!1969Live
1966-08 Mama Too Tight Impulse!1967
1967-04 The Magic of Ju-Ju Impulse!1968
1967-10Life at the Donaueschingen Music Festival SABA 1967Live
1968-01 The Way Ahead Impulse! 1968Bonus tracks rec. 1989
1969-07 Live at the Pan-African Festival BYG Actuel 1971Live
1969-08 Yasmina, a Black Woman BYG Actuel1969
1969-08 Poem for Malcolm BYG Actuel1969
1969-08 Blasé BYG Actuel1969
1968-09,
1969-02,
1969-08		 For Losers Impulse!1970
1968-09,
1969-02,
1969-08		 Kwanza Impulse!1974
1969-11 Black Gipsy America 1970
1969-11,
1969-12		 Archie Shepp & Philly Joe Jones America1970Septet with Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins a.o.
1971-05 Things Have Got to Change Impulse! 1971
1970-07 Live In Antibes (Vol.1 & Vol.2) BYG Actuel 1971Live with the Full Moon Ensemble
1969-11,
1970-07		 Pitchin Can America1970
1970-07 Coral Rock America1973
1970-11 Doodlin' Inner City 1976
1972-01 Attica Blues Impulse!1972big band recording
1972-09 The Cry of My People Impulse!1973big band recording
1975-04 There's a Trumpet in My Soul Freedom 1975
1975-07 Montreux One Freedom1976Live
1975-07 Montreux Two Freedom1976Live
1975-08 A Sea of Faces Black Saint 1975with Shirley Bunnie Foy
1975-09 Jazz a Confronto 27 Horo 1976
1975-09,
1975-10		 Body and Soul Horo1978
1975-10 Mariamar Horo1976
1975-10 U-Jaama (Unite) Uniteledis1976Live
1975-10 Bijou Musica 1976Live
1976-05 Steam Enja 1976Live
1976-06Live in TokyoDenon Jazz1978Live
1976-06 Hi-Fly Compendium1976with Karin Krog
1976Force: Sweet Mao - Suid Africa '76Uniteledis1976[2LP] duo recording with Max Roach
1977-04The Rising Sun CollectionJust a Memory1994
1977-04 Goin' Home Steeplechase1977duo recording with Horace Parlan
1977-05Ballads for Trane Denon Jazz 1977
1977-06Day DreamDenon Jazz1977
1977-10The Tradition Horo 1978[2LP]
1977-10Parisian Concert Vol. 1 Sun 1977
1977-10Parisian Concert Vol. 2Sun1978
1977-10A Touch of the Blues Fluid 1977featuring Joe Lee Wilson
1977-11 On Green Dolphin Street Denon Jazz 1978
1978-07Maple Leaf Rag Fluid 1978
1978-09Frankfurt Workshop '78: Tenor Saxes Circle 1985Live album with George Adams, Heinz Sauer
1978-10Perfect PassionsWest Wind1992with Siegfried Kessler, Wilbur Little, Clifford Jarvis (Recorded in Warsaw, Poland)
1978-11 Duet Denon Jazz1978duo recording with Dollar Brand
1978-12 Lady Bird Denon Jazz1979
1979-01Things Have Got To Change: Live At The Totem Volume 1Marge1979Live
1979-01Bird Fire: A Tribute to Charlie ParkerImpro1979
1979-04Tray of Silver Denon Jazz 1979
1979-10Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des GlacesBlue Marge1979[2LP] Live big band recording
1980-02 Trouble in Mind Steeplechase1980duo recording with Horace Parlan
1980-02 Looking at Bird Steeplechase1981duo recording with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
1980-10Here Comes The FamilyNågarå1981with Family of Percussion
1981-02I Know About the Life Sackville 1981with Kenny Werner, Santie Debriano and John Betsch
1981-11My Man - Tribute To Sydney Bechet West Wind 1982also released as Passport to Paradise: Archie Shepp Plays Sydney Bechet (1987)
1982-02 Mama Rose Steeplechase1982Live duo album with keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof
1982-12 Soul Song Enja 1983
1984-02 Down Home New York Soul Note1984
1984-10African Moods Circle 1984Live album with Jeanne Lee at Leverkusener Jazztage, Germany
1985-05 California Meeting: Live on Broadway Soul Note1987Live
1985-11Passion 52e Rue Est 1986
1985-12 Little Red Moon Soul Note1986
1987-05The Fifth of MayL+R1987duo recording with keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof
1987-05 Splashes L+R1987 Wilbur Little tribute
1987-05 Duo Reunion L+R1987with Horace Parlan
1987-10En concert: 1st set 52e Rue Est 1987
1987-10En concert: 2nd set52e Rue Est1987
1988-01 Lover Man Timeless 1989featuring Annette Lowman
1989-03En concert à Banlieues Bleues 52e Rue Est 1989Live album with Chris McGregor, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead a.o.
1989-10 Body and Soul Enja 1991Live album with Richard Davis
1990-11Blues Alfa 1991
1990-11I Didn't Know About You Timeless 1991
1992-01Black Ballads Timeless 1992
1992-01Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie SheppYAL1992with Yusef Lateef
1995-11 Blue Ballads Venus 1996with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad
1996-06Live In ParisTwins Production2000Live album with Eric Le Lann
1996-12True BalladsVenus1997with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad
1996-12True Ballads IIVenus1997with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad
1996-12Something to Live For Timeless 1997
1998-09True BlueVenus1999with John Hicks, George Mraz, Billy Drummond
1999-01 Conversations Delmark1999with Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio
2000-09 Live in New York Verve2001Live album with Roswell Rudd, Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman, Grachan Moncur III
2001-06Deja VuVenus2002with Harold Mabern, George Mraz, Billy Drummond
2001?Hungarian BebopBMC2002with the Mihály Dresch Quartet
2002-02Left Alone Revisited Enja 2002duo recording with Mal Waldron
2003-05First TakeArchieball2005with Siegfried Kessler
2003Kindred Spirits Vol. 1Archieball2005Live album with Dar Gnawa
2007-11Phat Jam in MilanoDawn of Freedom2009Live
2010-11Wo!manArchieball2011with Joachim Kühn
2017-09,
2018-11		Let My People GoArchieball2021[2LP, CD, FLAC] Live album with Jason Moran
2020Ocean BridgesRedefinition2020[2LP] with Raw Poetic, Damu The Fudgemunk
During a concert in Warsaw, Poland, in July 2008 Archie shepp Warszawa 2.jpg
During a concert in Warsaw, Poland, in July 2008

Compilations

As a member

New York Contemporary Five

As sideman

With John Coltrane

With Sunny Murray

With Cecil Taylor

With others

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