Don’t call Archie Shepp a jazz musician. Also, as we found out recently, don’t call him before 4 p.m. — Shepp is nocturnal and might not yet be out of bed. Sleeping habits aside, Archie Shepp, 75, is ...

Some of the most exciting jazz albums to listen to are those that try to strike a middle ground between the mainstream and the Avant-garde. One such example is Archie Shepp’s Fire Music: an ...

Two recent releases from the free jazz universe of music celebrate two of the greatest saxophone icons of the 20th century, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. I was first exposed to free jazz at a ...

Listen to our experts’ selections from one of jazz’s great labels, with tracks from Sonny Rollins, Archie Shepp, Gato ...

Iconic jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp has collaborated with Raw Poetic and Damu the Fudgemunk on a new album. Ocean Bridges is out May 22 on Redefinition Records. Today, they’ve shared a new song from ...

Ezz-thetics have already released several '60s albums featuring Archie Shepp which were recorded before or after the music on Four For Trane to Live Newport 1965 Revisited. These have included the New ...

The material here is familiar territory for Shepp: a mix of spirituals and standards, some of which he’s recorded before on Goin’ Home and other prior releases, plus one Moran original. But Shepp has ...

Aug 20, 2020 Lower Dens By Jordan J. Michael Photography by Torso. Since 1960, 82-year-old jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp has played saxophone and piano on at least 100 different releases, almost all ...

The FADER’s “Songs You Need” are the tracks we can’t stop playing. Check back every day for new music and follow along on our Spotify playlist. With the passing of the great Pharoah Sanders in ...

While Record Store Day (RSD) is over for now, Mark Smotroff reports on his scores, some of which you still may be able to find in the racks of your favorite shops as well as online. Record Store Day ...

It was July 1969, a few weeks before Woodstock. Men had just landed on the moon. After 132 years of French colonialism, Algeria was independent, and 1 million settlers had left the country. It was a ...

The album art for Let My People Go was created by the Polish artist Jacek Woźniak. Credit: Courtesy the artist The Reader is free. Producing it isn’t. And without your support, we can't continue. So ...