Attica Blues (Dig)

Attica Blues (Dig) Artist: Archie Shepp
Label: Umvd Labels
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 602465441420
EAN: 0602465441420
ASIN: B00007KMSO


Release Date: 2003-03-11

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Tracks:

  1. Attica Blues
  2. Invocation: Attica Blues
  3. Steam (Part 1)
  4. Invocation To Mr. Parker
  5. Steam (Part 2)
  6. Blues For Brother George Jackson
  7. Invocation: Ballad For A Child
  8. Ballad For A Child
  9. Good-Bye Sweet Pops
  10. Quiet Dawn

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Throw away your preconceptions of Mr. Shepp!.......2006-06-03

I purchased this album after having acquainted myself with albums like "Mama's Too Tight", "Live at Newport", and "The Way Ahead". Needless to say, it is quite unlike any of those albums. This was a bit troubling at first, but I must admit that once I considered this album as an entity unto itself, it amazed me! This is a very likeable and listenable album, and features the same sort of emotional purity of expression found on Shepp's more "out" blowing albums: That purity is captured here through plaintive lyricism, a heady mix of musical styles, and quaint use of dramatic effects (screamed choruses in the opening track, naively pure child singing on the closer, snippets of poetry and yearning lyrics). This album is fascinating in that it succeeds (imho) at capturing the emotional openness and purity of the free jazz idiom, by totally different means. Appraised on it's own terms, this is a classic.

5 out of 5 stars eclectically brilliant!.......2005-02-19

i knew of mr. shepp, but had never heard anything by him before... this was strickly an impulse purchase... (a habit i indulge waaay too often!)...

but this is proly one of the top ten purchases i've bought over the past 3 years. i'ma pretty eclectic kinda cat... it can be strange, off the beaten track, 'weird' even... just as long as it feels 'honest' and 'human' to me, then i can get into it...
...and this is surprisingly both honest and human.
bits and pieces of clunky poetry... about 5% cheesiness... 100& flawlessly mortal.
how tight is this? the writer for the last cut 'quiet dawn' lets his ten year daughter do the vocals... her voice is shakey, you cant make out everything she is saying, it startles you at first... but after about ten seconds, with brotha shepp's artistry strongly backing lilsista up, this becomes the best most brilliant track on the album!

if anyone knows where i can find lil waheeda (well, maybe not so little now!), let me know... that sista got a dozen roses waitin to be delivered to her!

2 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected.......2004-10-29

Love Archie, but was sorely dissappointed by this CD. There are only two tracks that I really enjoy, and a couple that were truly awful.

I feel I am open-minded enough to listen to just about anything, but some of this was far too self-indulgent and downright sappy.

Not what I expect from this guy.

4 out of 5 stars All over the map, but always on track........2004-05-16

Attica Blues, tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp's response to the Attica uprising, is a much more sobering retort than one would expect from the 1960's firebrand. Vocal ballads dominate the album, which also includes early 70's funk, rock rhythms and some big band swing. It is a peculiarly mixed album, especially in it's vocal performances. The opening title track is one of the most furious free form funk cuts one could imagine, sort of a cross between Sly and the Family Stone and late period Coltrane. Whereas the final cut "Quiet Dawn" is a tentative ballad sung by a child. Spoken word interludes between tracks unfortunately date the album even further than the instrumentation does. Uneven in spots, but not without a certain strange charm; Attica Blues is one of Shepp's most diverse albums.

5 out of 5 stars Incredible.......2003-11-19

Classic....Wonderful vocals....This is a must have for Archie Shepp fans!!!!.....

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