Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces

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Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces
Studio album by
Released1979
RecordedOctober 24th, 1979
Genre Jazz, Big Band
Length1:36:00 [1]
Label Blue Marge
1001
Producer Gérard Terronès
Archie Shepp chronology
The Long March
(1979)
Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces
(1979)
Trouble in Mind
(1980)

Attica Blues Big Band Live at The palais des Glaces is a live double album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in live in Palais Des Glaces, Paris, France, on October 24, 1979 for the French Blue Marge label. [2] [3] . This was seen as a live big band interpretation of his 1972 album Attica Blues [4]

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Reception

Professional ratings
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AllMusic awarded the album 5 stars, stating: "This is big band arranging and execution at its best; Shepp and Coleman make it all sound so easy, though charts are anything, but when you're fusing together so many different kinds of music. This is the high point of the latter part of Shepp's career, and it's a cultural crime that it's not available on an American label and sold as a work that belongs next to Mingus' Ah Um, Miles' Bitches Brew, Ornette's Science Fiction, and other notable works by the masters.". [5]

Track listing

All compositions by Archie Shepp except where noted.

  1. "Antes de Adios" (Terry Jenoure) – 2:50
  2. "Star Love" – 3:34
  3. "Moon Bees" – 5:54
  4. "Attica Blues, Pt. One" (Archie Shepp, Beaver Harris) – 4:45
  5. "Steam" – 7:37
  6. "Quiet Dawn" (Cal Massey) – 5:48
  7. "Hi-Fly" (Randy Weston) – 7:27
  8. "U-Jaama" – 7:45
  9. "Strollin'" (Horace Silver) – 6:10
  10. "Ballad for a Child" – 5:40
  11. "Simone" (Frank Foster) – 7:40
  12. "Crucificado"(Dave Burrell) – 6:30
  13. "A Change Has Come Over Me" (Walter Hawkins) – 5:40
  14. "Goodbye Sweet Pops" (Cal Massey) – 6:00
  15. "Skippin'" (Ramsey Lewis) – 4:30
  16. "Attica Blues, Pt. Two" (Archie Shepp, Beaver Harris) – 8:40

Personnel

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References

  1. Futura Marge Bandcamp entry, January 11, 2025
  2. Archie Shepp Catalog accessed January 11, 2025
  3. Discogs album entry, January 11, 2025
  4. Futura Marge Bandcamp entry, January 11, 2025
  5. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. Archie Shepp: Attica Blues Big Band – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 11th, 2025.