California Meeting: Live on Broadway

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California Meeting: Live on Broadway
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Live album by
Released1987
RecordedMay 22, 1985
Genre Jazz
Length40:53
Label Soul Note
Producer Giovanni Bonandrini
Archie Shepp chronology
The Good Life
(1984)
California Meeting: Live on Broadway
(1987)
Little Red Moon
(1985)

California Meeting: Live on Broadway is a live album by the American jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in 1985 and released on the Italian Soul Note label. [1]

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Archie Shepp recordings in the 1980s are hit and miss; this is one of the more interesting ones... Not essential but this CD is worth picking up by Archie Shepp's fans". [2]

Professional ratings
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Track listing

  1. "St. James Infirmary" (Traditional) – 7:20
  2. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie) – 13:42
  3. "Giant Steps" (John Coltrane) – 6:54
  4. "My Romance" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 12:27

Personnel

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References

  1. Archie Shepp discography accessed July 20, 2011
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed July 18, 2011
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1290. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.