The Cry of My People
1973 studio album by Archie Shepp
The Cry of My People | ||||
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Studio album by Archie Shepp | ||||
Released | 1973 | |||
Recorded | September 25–27, 1972 | |||
Studio | Allegro Sound Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Label | Impulse! | |||
Producer | Ed Michel | |||
Archie Shepp chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Cry of My People is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp released in 1972 on the Impulse! label. The album features performances by Shepp with gospel singers, big bands, quintets, sextets, and chamber orchestras. The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states: "Shepp worked with many larger ensembles as a leader, but never did he achieve such a perfect balance as he did on The Cry of My People".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Archie Shepp, except as indicated
- "Rest Enough (Song to Mother)" - 4:41
- "A Prayer" (Cal Massey) - 6:29
- "All God's Children Got a Home in the Universe" - 2:58
- "The Lady" (Bob Ford) - 5:31
- "The Cry of My People" (Massey) - 5:45
- "African Drum Suite, Part 1" (Beaver Harris) - 0:35
- "African Drum Suite, Part 2" (Harris) - 7:34
- "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) - 9:30
- Recorded at Allegro Sound Studios, NYC, September 25–27, 1972
Personnel
- Archie Shepp - tenor and soprano saxophone
- Harold Mabern, Dave Burrell - piano
- Charles McGhee - trumpet
- Charles Greenlee, Charles Stephens - trombone
- Cornell Dupree - guitar
- Ron Carter - electric bass
- Jimmy Garrison - bass
- Bernard Purdie - drums
- Beaver Harris - drums
- Nene DeFense, Terry Quaye - congas, percussion, tambourine
- Guilherme Franco - berimbau, Brazilian percussion
- Peggie Blue, Joe Lee Wilson - lead vocals
- Andre Franklin, Mildred Lane, Mary Stephens, Barbara White, Judith White - backing vocals
- John Blake, Gayle Dixon, Leroy Jenkins, Lois Siessinger, Noel DeCosta, Jerry Little - violin
- Patricia Dixon, Esther Mellon - cello
- Romulus Franceschini - conductor, arranger
- Cal Massey, Dave Burrell, Charles Greenlee - arranger, conductor
References
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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)