Shepp, Archie - Gemini

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CD1
Archie Shepp, saxophone
Wayne Dockery, bass
Steve Mc Craven, drums
Tom Mc Clung, piano
Stéphane Guéry, guitar
Chuck D, vocal

CD2
Archie Shepp, saxophone
Amina Claudine Myers, piano & vocal
Ronnie Burrage, drums
Cameron Brown, bass

Saxophone player, composer, pianist, singer, politically committed poet, playwright, Archie Shepp is a legend.

Archie Shepp was born in 1937 in Fort Lauderdale in Florida. He grew up in Philadelphia, studied piano and saxophone and attended high school in Germantown; he went to college, became involved with theatre, met writers and poets, among them, Leroy Jones and wrote: «The Communist», an allegorical play about the situation of black Americans. In the late fifties, Archie Shepp also met the most radical musicians of the time: Lee Morgan, Bobby Timmons, Jimmy Garrison, Ted Curson, Beaver Harris ... his political consciousness found an expression in plays and theatrical productions which barely allowed him to make a living. In the beginning sixties he met Cecil Taylor and did two recordings with him which were determining.