Attica Blues (album)

Attica Blues is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp. Originally released in 1972 on the Impulse! label, the album title is a direct reference to the Attica Prison riots. The Allmusic review by Steve Huey states "Attica Blues is one of Shepp's most successful large-group projects, because his skillful handling of so many different styles of black music produces such tremendously groovy results".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Archie Shepp except as indicated

1. "Attica Blues" (Beaver Harris, Archie Shepp) - 5:06 (including invocation by Beaver Harris)
2. "Steam (Part 1)" - 5:07
3. "Invocation To Mr. Parker" (Bart Gray, Shepp) - 3:16
4. "Steam (Part 2)" - 5:10
5. "Blues For Brother George Jackson" - 4:24
6. "Ballad For A Child" (Harris, Shepp) - 3:41 (including invocation by Beaver Harris)
7. "Good-Bye Sweet Pops" (Cal Massey) - 4:22
8. "Quiet Dawn" (Massey) - 6:12

• Recorded at A&R Studios, NYC, January 24-26, 1972

Personnel

• Archie Shepp: tenor and soprano saxophones
• Clifford Thornton: cornet
• Roy Burrows, Charles McGhee, Michael Ridley: trumpet
• Cal Massey: fluegelhorn
• Charles Greenlee, Charles Stephens, Kiane Zawadi: trombone
• Hakim Jami: euphonium
• Clarence White: alto saxophone
• Marion Brown: alto saxophone, flute, bamboo flute, percussion
• Roland Alexander, Billy Robinson: tenor saxophone
• James Ware: baritone saxophone
• John Blake, Leroy Jenkins, Lakshinarayana Shankar: violin
• Ronald Lipscomb, Calo Scott: cello
• Dave Burrell: electric piano
• Walter Davis, Jr.: electric piano, piano
• Cornell Dupree: guitar
• Jimmy Garrison, Gerald Jemmott, Roland Wilson: bass
• Ollie Anderson, Nene DeFense, Juma Sultan: percussion
• Beaver Harris, Billy Higgins: drums
• Joshie Armstead, Henry Hull, Waheeda Massey, Albertine Robertson, Joe Lee Wilson: vocal
• Bartholomew Gray, William Kunstler: narrator
• RoMas: arranger
• Romulus Franceschini: conductor

References