Yasmina, a Black Woman
Yasmina, a Black Woman | ||||
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Studio album by Archie Shepp | ||||
Released | 1969 | |||
Recorded | August 12, 1969 (Paris, France) | |||
Genre | Free jazz | |||
Label | BYG Actuel SNAP 162 CD (CD re-issue) | |||
Producer | Jean Georgakarakos, Jean-Luc Young | |||
Archie Shepp chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [2] |
Yasmina, a Black Woman is a jazz album by Archie Shepp, recorded in 1969 in Paris for BYG Actuel. It features musicians from the Art Ensemble of Chicago. The first track, giving its title to the album, is a long free jazz piece by an 11-piece orchestra; in it, the references to Africa that Shepp had experimented with only a few weeks earlier in Algiers are to be found in the use of African percussion instruments, or the African incantations sung by Shepp himself at the beginning of the track. The other two pieces, a homage to Sonny Rollins written by trombonist Grachan Moncur III and a standard, played by a more traditional quintet and quartet respectively, are more reminiscent of the hard bop genre, although the fiery playing of the musicians, notably Shepp himself, gives them a definite avant-garde edge. It was originally issued on CD by Affinity (paired with Poem for Malcolm), mastered from an incredibly noisy vinyl source and later reissued by Charly (also paired with Poem for Malcolm) from the original master tapes.
Track listing
- "Yasmina, a Black Woman" (A. Shepp) – 20:08
- "Sonny's Back" (G. Moncur) – 14:03
- "Body and Soul" (Heyman, Sour, Green) – 6:23
- Recorded: Paris, August 12, 1969.
Personnel
On "Yasmina, a Black Woman"
- Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone, vocal
- Clifford Thornton – cornet
- Lester Bowie – trumpet
- Arthur Jones – alto saxophone
- Roscoe Mitchell – bass saxophone, piccolo
- Dave Burrell – piano
- Malachi Favors, Earl Freeman – bass
- Sunny Murray – drums, percussions
- Art Taylor – rhythm logs
- Laurence Devereaux – balafon
On "Sonny's Back"
- Archie Shepp, Hank Mobley – tenor saxophone, vocal
- Dave Burrell – piano
- Malachi Favors – bass
- Philly Joe Jones – drums
On "Body and Soul"
- Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone, vocal
- Dave Burrell – piano
- Malachi Favors – bass
- Philly Joe Jones – drums
References
- ^ Yasmina, a Black Woman at AllMusic
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1290. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- v
- t
- e
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)