Goin' Home (album)

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Goin' Home
Goin' Home cover
Studio album by Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan
Released 1977
Recorded April 25, 1977
Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen
Genre Jazz
Soul jazz
Spiritual
Length 43:24 (Original LP)
51:09 (CD reissue)
Label SteepleChase
SCS-1079
Producer Nils Winther
Professional reviews
Archie Shepp chronology
The Rising Sun Collection
(1977)		 Goin' Home
(1977)		 Ballads for Trane
(1977)
Horace Parlan chronology
Frank-ly Speaking
(1977)		 Goin' Home
(1977)		 Blue Parlan
(1978)

Goin' Home is a 1977 jazz duet album by saxophonist Archie Shepp and pianist Horace Parlan. It is the first of a series of duet records with Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan. The album was recorded in one session at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen and was critically-praised by the jazz community soon after its release . It consists of Shepp's and Parlan's interpretation of spirituals and black folk songs to which the album title alludes to.


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[edit] Album Overview

Archie Shepp's two duet albums with pianist Horace Parlan on SteepleChase (the other one is 1980's Trouble in Mind) both find the innovative avant-garde tenor in relaxed and melodic form, respectfully interpreting music of the 1920's and before. Goin' Home features Shepp (who doubles on soprano) and Parlan playing tasteful versions of nine ancient black folk melodies including "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", "Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen", and "Deep River". Those listeners only familiar with Shepp's earlier Fire Music will find these compelling performances to be a revelation.

Archie Shepp interview for Down Beat magazine, 1982:[2]


“ This was the first chance I'd had to really record spirituals, to make any kind of serious statement about them. And when I started to play, at first I filled up with so much crying. And I was afraid for a moment I wouldn't be able to make the recording, because I felt so full, so full of tears....I felt I represented everybody who'd ever sang those songs, and to make the meaning of those songs clear was up to me at that point. ”

[edit] Track listing

All songs are traditional compositions arranged by Shepp, except where noted.

  1. "Goin' Home" (Antonín Dvořák)– 6:11
  2. "Nobody Knows the Troubles I've Seen" – 4:43
  3. "Go Down Moses" – 4:21
  4. "Steal Away to Jesus" – 6:14
  5. "Deep River" – 4:51
  6. "My Lord What a Morning" – 4:40
  7. "Amazing Grace" – 4:23
  8. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" – 5:20
  9. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" – 2:44
  10. "Come Sunday" (Duke Ellington) – 7:46 *issued on 1985 CD reissue

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ "iTunes Review - Goin' Home" . Apple Inc.. 
  2. ^ Musician Guide - Shepp Biography. Retrieved on 2007-06-01.