Archie Shepp discography

Last updated April 01, 2025

Discography

As leader/co-leader

Recording date	Title	Label	Year released	Notes
1962-10	Archie Shepp – Bill Dixon Quartet	Savoy	1962
1963-11	The House I Live In	SteepleChase	1980	Live 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!	1966	Live split album with John Coltrane
1965-03, 1965-08	On This Night	Impulse!	1965
1966-02	Archie Shepp Live in San Francisco	Impulse!	1966	Live
1966-02	Three for a Quarter, One for a Dime	Impulse!	1969	Live
1966-08	Mama Too Tight	Impulse!	1967
1967-04	The Magic of Ju-Ju	Impulse!	1968
1967-10	Life at the Donaueschingen Music Festival	SABA	1967	Live
1968-01	The Way Ahead	Impulse!	1968	Bonus tracks rec. 1989
1969-07	Live at the Pan-African Festival	BYG Actuel	1971	Live
1969-08	Yasmina, a Black Woman	BYG Actuel	1969
1969-08	Poem for Malcolm	BYG Actuel	1969
1969-08	Blasé	BYG Actuel	1969
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	America	1970	Septet 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	1971	Live with the Full Moon Ensemble
1969-11, 1970-07	Pitchin Can	America	1970
1970-07	Coral Rock	America	1973
1970-11	Doodlin'	Inner City	1976
1972-01	Attica Blues	Impulse!	1972	big band recording
1972-09	The Cry of My People	Impulse!	1973	big band recording
1975-04	There's a Trumpet in My Soul	Freedom	1975
1975-07	Montreux One	Freedom	1976	Live
1975-07	Montreux Two	Freedom	1976	Live
1975-08	A Sea of Faces	Black Saint	1975	with Shirley Bunnie Foy
1975-09	Jazz a Confronto 27	Horo	1976
1975-09, 1975-10	Body and Soul	Horo	1978
1975-10	Mariamar	Horo	1976
1975-10	U-Jaama (Unite)	Uniteledis	1976	Live
1975-10	Bijou	Musica	1976	Live
1976-05	Steam	Enja	1976	Live
1976-06	Live in Tokyo	Denon Jazz	1978	Live
1976-06	Hi-Fly	Compendium	1976	with Karin Krog
1976	Force: Sweet Mao - Suid Africa '76	Uniteledis	1976	[2LP] duo recording with Max Roach
1977-04	The Rising Sun Collection	Just a Memory	1994
1977-04	Goin' Home	Steeplechase	1977	duo recording with Horace Parlan
1977-05	Ballads for Trane	Denon Jazz	1977
1977-06	Day Dream	Denon Jazz	1977
1977-10	The Tradition	Horo	1978	[2LP]
1977-10	Parisian Concert Vol. 1	Sun	1977
1977-10	Parisian Concert Vol. 2	Sun	1978
1977-10	A Touch of the Blues	Fluid	1977	featuring Joe Lee Wilson
1977-11	On Green Dolphin Street	Denon Jazz	1978
1978-07	Maple Leaf Rag	Fluid	1978
1978-09	Frankfurt Workshop '78: Tenor Saxes	Circle	1985	Live album with George Adams, Heinz Sauer
1978-10	Perfect Passions	West Wind	1992	with Siegfried Kessler, Wilbur Little, Clifford Jarvis (Recorded in Warsaw, Poland)
1978-11	Duet	Denon Jazz	1978	duo recording with Dollar Brand
1978-12	Lady Bird	Denon Jazz	1979
1979-01	Things Have Got To Change: Live At The Totem Volume 1	Marge	1979	Live
1979-01	Bird Fire: A Tribute to Charlie Parker	Impro	1979
1979-04	Tray of Silver	Denon Jazz	1979
1979-10	Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces	Blue Marge	1979	[2LP] Live big band recording
1980-02	Trouble in Mind	Steeplechase	1980	duo recording with Horace Parlan
1980-02	Looking at Bird	Steeplechase	1981	duo recording with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
1980-10	Here Comes The Family	Någarå	1981	with Family of Percussion
1981-02	I Know About the Life	Sackville	1981	with Kenny Werner, Santie Debriano and John Betsch
1981-11	My Man - Tribute To Sydney Bechet	West Wind	1982	also released as Passport to Paradise: Archie Shepp Plays Sydney Bechet (1987)
1982-02	Mama Rose	Steeplechase	1982	Live duo album with keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof
1982-12	Soul Song	Enja	1983
1984-02	Down Home New York	Soul Note	1984
1984-10	African Moods	Circle	1984	Live album with Jeanne Lee at Leverkusener Jazztage, Germany
1985-05	California Meeting: Live on Broadway	Soul Note	1987	Live
1985-11	Passion	52e Rue Est	1986
1985-12	Little Red Moon	Soul Note	1986
1987-05	The Fifth of May	L+R	1987	duo recording with keyboardist Jasper Van't Hof
1987-05	Splashes	L+R	1987	Wilbur Little tribute
1987-05	Duo Reunion	L+R	1987	with Horace Parlan
1987-10	En concert: 1st set	52e Rue Est	1987
1987-10	En concert: 2nd set	52e Rue Est	1987
1988-01	Lover Man	Timeless	1989	featuring Annette Lowman
1989-03	En concert à Banlieues Bleues	52e Rue Est	1989	Live album with Chris McGregor, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead a.o.
1989-10	Body and Soul	Enja	1991	Live album with Richard Davis
1990-11	Blues	Alfa	1991
1990-11	I Didn't Know About You	Timeless	1991
1992-01	Black Ballads	Timeless	1992
1992-01	Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp	YAL	1992	with Yusef Lateef
1995-11	Blue Ballads	Venus	1996	with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad
1996-06	Live In Paris	Twins Production	2000	Live album with Eric Le Lann
1996-12	True Ballads	Venus	1997	with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad
1996-12	True Ballads II	Venus	1997	with John Hicks, George Mraz, Idris Muhammad
1996-12	Something to Live For	Timeless	1997
1998-09	True Blue	Venus	1999	with John Hicks, George Mraz, Billy Drummond
1999-01	Conversations	Delmark	1999	with Kahil El'Zabar's Ritual Trio
2000-09	Live in New York	Verve	2001	Live album with Roswell Rudd, Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman, Grachan Moncur III
2001-06	Deja Vu	Venus	2002	with Harold Mabern, George Mraz, Billy Drummond
2001?	Hungarian Bebop	BMC	2002	with the Mihály Dresch Quartet
2002-02	Left Alone Revisited	Enja	2002	duo recording with Mal Waldron
2003-05	First Take	Archieball	2005	with Siegfried Kessler
2003	Kindred Spirits Vol. 1	Archieball	2005	Live album with Dar Gnawa
2007-11	Phat Jam in Milano	Dawn of Freedom	2009	Live
2010-11	Wo!man	Archieball	2011	with Joachim Kühn
2017-09, 2018-11	Let My People Go	Archieball	2021	[2LP, CD, FLAC] Live album with Jason Moran
2020	Ocean Bridges	Redefinition	2020	[2LP] with Raw Poetic, Damu The Fudgemunk

Compilations

Devil Blues (Circle, 1986) – including tracks from Frankfurt Workshop '78: Tenor Saxes
Gemini (Archieball, 2007)[2CD] – recorded in 2002 and 2007
Attica Blues Orchestra Live: I Hear The Sound (Archieball, 2013) – Live recorded in 2012 ("Festival Jazz à La Villette") and 2013 ("CNCDC Châteauvallon" and "Festival Les Nuits")

As a member

New York Contemporary Five

Rufus (Fontana, 1963) – proto-NYCF, yet without Don Cherry
Consequences (Fontana, 1963)
New York Contemporary Five Vol. 1 (Storyville/Sonet, 1963)
New York Contemporary Five Vol. 2 (Storyville/Sonet, 1963)
Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary 5 (Savoy, 1964) – split album

As sideman

With John Coltrane

A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965) – rec. 1964
Ascension (Impulse!, 1966) – rec. 1965
The Major Works of John Coltrane (GRP, 1992) – rec. 1965

With Sunny Murray

Sunshine (BYG, 1969)
Homage to Africa (BYG, 1970) – rec. in 1969

With Cecil Taylor

The World of Cecil Taylor (Candid, 1961) – rec. 1960
New York City R&B (Candid, 1961)
Jumpin' Punkins (Candid, 1971) – rec. 1961
Air (Candid, 1988) – rec. 1960
Cell Walk for Celeste (Candid, 1988) – rec. 1961

With others

Dave Burrell, Echo (BYG, 1969)
Alan Silva, Luna Surface (BYG, 1969)
Clifford Thornton, Ketchaoua (BYG, 1969)
Art Matthews, It's Easy to Remember (Baystate, 1978) – rec. 1979
Siegfried Kessler Trio, Invitation (Sun, 1980) – rec. 1979
Material, One Down (Celluloid, 1982) – on "Memories", accompanying Whitney Houston on her debut as lead vocalist.
Chet Baker, In Memory Of (L+R, 1988)
Frank Zappa, You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 4 (Rykodisc, 1991) – live rec. 1969-88
Jeff Silvertrust Quintet, Hip Knossis (Bulldozers From Jupiter, 2001)
Mina Agossi Red Eyes (Naïve, 2011)
Joachim Kühn, Voodoo Sense (ACT, 2013) – rec. 2011-12
Alice Coltrane, Carnegie Hall '71 (Hi Hat, 2018) – live rec. 1971
Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (Impulse!, 2024) – live rec. 1971

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Leader	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) Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces (1979) 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)
New York 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)
With 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)
With 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)
Discography