Things Have Got to Change
1971 studio album by Archie Shepp
Things Have Got to Change | ||||
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Studio album by Archie Shepp | ||||
Released | 1971 | |||
Recorded | May 17, 1971 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 37:42 | |||
Label | Impulse! | |||
Producer | Ed Michel | |||
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Things Have Got to Change is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp released in 1971 on the Impulse! label. The album features a performance by Shepp with a large ensemble and vocal choir. The album "solidified the saxophonists reputation as a soulful, yet radical free jazz artist motivated by social commentary and cultural change".[2]
Track listing
- "Money Blues, Parts 1 - 3" (Beaver Harris, Archie Shepp) - 18:20
- "Dr. King, The Peaceful Warrior" (Cal Massey) - 2:29
- "Things Have Got to Change, Parts 1 and 2" (Massey) - 16:53
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 17, 1971.
Personnel
- Archie Shepp: tenor and soprano saxophone
- James Spaulding: alto saxophone, piccolo
- Roy Burrows, Ted Daniel: trumpet
- Charles Greenlee, Grachan Moncur III: trombone
- Howard Johnson: baritone saxophone
- Dave Burrell: electric piano
- Billy Butler, David Spinozza: guitar
- Roland Wilson: electric bass
- Beaver Harris: drums
- Ollie Anderson, Hetty "Bunchy" Fox, Calo Scott, Juma Sultan: percussion
- Joe Lee Wilson: lead vocal
- Anita Branham, Claudette Brown, Barbara Parsons, Ernestina Parsons, Jody Shayne, Anita Shepp, Johnny Shepp, Sharon Shepp: vocals
References
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release,
unless stated otherwise.
unless stated otherwise.
- 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)
- 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)
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)
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)
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)