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| Studio album by Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan | |||||
| Released | 1977 | ||||
| Recorded | April 25, 1977 Sweet Silence Studios (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
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| Genre | Jazz, gospel | ||||
| Length | 43:24 (Original LP) 51:09 (CD reissue) |
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| Label | SteepleChase SCS-1079 |
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| Producer | Nils Winther | ||||
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Goin' Home is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp and pianist Horace Parlan, released in 1977 on SteepleChase Records. It is the first of a series of duet records featuring the two musicians. 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 jazz interpretation of spirituals and black folk songs to which the album title alludes to.
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| “ | 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. | ” |
All songs are traditional compositions arranged by Shepp, except where noted.
Issued on 1985 CD reissue