Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp
Archie Shepp in Warsaw, 2008
Background information
Born	May 24, 1937 (aged 89) Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Genres	Jazz, free jazz, avant-garde jazz
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instruments	Saxophone, Piano
Years active	1960–present
Labels	Impulse!, SteepleChase, DENON, BYG Actuel
Associated acts	Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane, Horace Parlan
Website	www.archieshepp.com

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist. He played in a Latin jazz band for a short time before joining the band of avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor.

With 1972's Attica Blues and The Cry of My People, he spoke out for civil rights; the former album was a response to the Attica Prison riots.

Shepp was also a professor of African-American Studies at SUNY in Buffalo, New York.

Archie Shepp Media

• (video) Interview from 1978, Archie Shepp discusses jazz trends, poverty, politics, civil rights, culture and society.

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  Archie Shepp with the singer Shirley Bunnie Foy, with whom he recorded the 1975 album A Sea of Faces

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  Archie Shepp in France, 1982

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  Archie Shepp at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, August 19, 1982

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  Concert of Archie Shepp and Reggie Workman in the Red Hall' of the Deutschordensmuseum Bad Mergentheim, 2016.6.

Other websites

• Official site
• Stewart Smith, "Archie Shepp interview", Summerhall, July 31, 2012.
• Phil Freeman, "Interview: Archie Shepp on John Coltrane, the Blues and More" Archived 2015-04-29 at the Wayback Machine, Red Bull Music Academy, August 25, 2014.
• Archie Shepp on IMDb