Body and Soul (Archie Shepp and Richard Davis album)

This article is about the 1991 album by Archie Shepp and Richard Davis. For the 1975 album by Archie Shepp, see Body and Soul (Archie Shepp album). 1991 live album by Archie Shepp and Richard Davis

Body and Soul

Live album by Archie Shepp and Richard Davis

Released

1991

Recorded

October 1, 1989

Venue

Club Cantare, Boston, MA

Genre

Jazz

Length

54:13

Label

Enja
7007

Producer

Horst Weber

Archie Shepp chronology

Lover Man
(1988)

Body and Soul
(1991)

Octiminus
(1989)

Richard Davis chronology

One for Frederick
(1989)

Body and Soul
(1991)

I Remember Clifford
(1992)

Body and Soul is a live album by saxophonist Archie Shepp and bassist Richard Davis which was recorded in Boston in 1989 and released on the Enja label in 1991.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek called it "a major addition to the saxophonist's catalog" and said "This duet date from 1990 demonstrates the deep blues feeling and technical mastery Archie Shepp has on the tenor saxophone ... this set is one of Shepp's most enjoyable ever. The reasons are myriad, but it is in large part due to the fluid, loping bass of Richard Davis". In The Chicago Tribune, Jack Fuller said "This recording is first-rate".

Track listing

"Things Ain't What They Used to Be" (Mercer Ellington, Ted Persons) – 12:36
"Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Frank Eyton, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 17:17
"Pannonica" (Thelonious Monk) – 7:21
"'Round About Midnight" (Monk) – 17:03

Personnel

Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone
Richard Davis – bass

References

Jazzlists:Enja Records main series discography accessed May 4, 2018
Jazzdisco: Archie Shepp catalog accessed June 12, 2018
Richard Davis: discography accessed June 12, 2018
^ Jurek, Thom. Archie Shepp: Body and Soul – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
Fuller, J. Chicago Tribune Review accessed June 12, 2018

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Leader	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) Attica Blues Big Band Live At The Palais Des Glaces (1979) 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)
New York 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)
With 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)
With 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)
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