Bill Dixon/Archie Shepp

Bill Dixon/Archie Shepp Artist: Bill Dixon , and Archie Shepp
Label: Savoy Jazz
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 075679300829
EAN: 0075679300829
ASIN: B000059LZ4


Release Date: 2001-03-13

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Tracks:

  1. Winter Song 1964: Section I, Letters A, B, C, D
  2. Winter Song 1964: Section II, Letter E
  3. Winter Song 1964: Section III, Letter F
  4. Winter Song 1964: Section IV, Letter G
  5. Winter Song 1964: Section V, Letter H Played Three Times
  6. Coda
  7. The 12th December
  8. Winter Song 1964: Section III, Letter F (Alternate Take)
  9. Winter Song 1964: Section III, Letter F (Aalternate Study Of Section III)
  10. Where Poppies Bloom (Where Poppies Blow) - Archie Shepp
  11. Like A Blessed Baby Lamb
  12. Consequences

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An Overlooked Master of Jazz Trumpet........2006-08-06

I have no idea if Bill is still among the living. I owe him. He ended up at Bennington College teaching wealthy kids who generally were only familiar with guitars, a source of eternal frustration for a guy trying to make coherent student jazz ensembles.

He was born on Nantucket Island and fought in World War Two in the reclamation of the Phillipines.

This recording was actually done in March of 1964 and not in the 50's as some tailwagger claimed. It was a masterful work bursting with rigor and imagination with an exceptional ensemble.

Howard Johnson and Ken McIntyre sparkle throughout and it is one of the few recordings of David Izenzon, a bass master who also worked with Ornette only to die of a heart attack in some stupid altercation.

Bill is the classic thinking man's trumpeter pushing the boundaries ever forward and the advanced embodiement of that oft oer looked thing, the Black Intellect, in a nation prone to the assumption that such is a chimera.

This release finds him in the full flush of his vigorous rigourous youth and the Shepp stuff is comparably impressive, in its way. Archie was young then, too.

Bill's work is gifted with a spare sly brilliance and rarely met mastery of the properties of this demanding bit of brass tubing.

I dearly love this early work and will eventually get the rest of his impressive oeuvre. I hope he is well. Viscera and cerebra meet well in the well thought works of this master.

4 out of 5 stars Revolutionary Indeed.......2003-05-03

There's something electrifying about this CD. It's the way Dixon's and Shepp's compositions reinvent the ethics of free-jazz. This kind of A.N.G.S.T. could only happen in NYC in the Fifties. Get the CD, and teleport yourself into some other, exciting time...

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