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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was my peers who really helped me--and one of the things Lee Morgan liked about me was the fact that, even though I couldn Saxophonist, pianist, writer and composer Archie Shepp was born in Ft.

Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit the landmark 1972 album from the legendary ...

In 1995, saxophonist, composer, and educator Archie Shepp was awarded the New England Foundation for the Arts' "Achievement in Jazz Award." It honors New England jazz artists whose performance ...

In his autobiography, “Live at the Village Vanguard,” Vanguard founder Max Gordon describes Professor Archie Shepp as a “professor of jazz at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst” before there ...