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1972 studio album by Archie Shepp
Attica Blues
Studio album by Archie Shepp
Released1972
RecordedJanuary 24–26, 1972
StudioA&R Recording, New York
GenreJazz, post-bop, avant-garde jazz, big band, jazz poetry, funk
LabelImpulse! AS-9222
ProducerEd Michel
Archie Shepp chronology
Things Have Got to Change
(1971) 		Attica Blues
(1972) 		The Cry of My People
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
Rolling Stonefavorable
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
Pitchfork9.3/10

Attica Blues is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp. Originally released in 1972 on the Impulse! label, the album title refers to the Attica Prison riots.

Reception

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". Stephen Davis of Rolling Stone said that it was "not just a masterpiece of protest: it is more a politico/religious experience, an appeal to higher human consciousness to, for God's sake, help us out of this torment."

Track listing

All compositions by Archie Shepp, except as indicated
  1. "Attica Blues" (lyrics by Beaver Harris) – 4:49
  2. "Invocation: Attica Blues" (Harris) – 0:18
  3. "Steam, Part 1" – 5:08
  4. "Invocation to Mr. Parker" (lyrics by Bart Gray) – 3:17
  5. "Steam, Part 2" – 5:10
  6. "Blues for Brother George Jackson" – 4:00
  7. "Invocation: Ballad for a Child" (Harris) – 0:30
  8. "Ballad for a Child" (lyrics by Harris) – 3:37
  9. "Good-Bye Sweet Pops" (Cal Massey) – 4:23
  10. "Quiet Dawn" (Massey) – 6:12
Recorded at A&R Recording, NYC, January 24–26, 1972 (Track timings slightly differ from one issue to another, due to merging tracks.)

Personnel

References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. ^ Davis, Stephen (August 17, 1972). "Archie Shepp - Attica Blues". Rolling Stone. No. 115. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 179. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1290. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. Chinen, Nate. "Archie Shepp: Attica Blues Album Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
  6. Bergstrom, John (1 April 2014). "Archie Shepp / Attica Blues Orchestra - I Hear the Sound". PopMatters. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
  7. Huey, S. Allmusic Review, accessed June 25, 2009.

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