"Actor: Archie Shepp"

• Archie Shepp - The Archie Shepp Quartet - Part 2 | DVD | (18/02/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Archie Shepp was a popular topic of conversation among jazz fans during the 1970s as it was becoming increasingly clear that a profound change was taking place in his approach to music and even his physical appearance. For years he had been the embodiment of black resistance dressing in traditional African garments and protesting against the suppression of black people. But now he was wearing suits and had given up his free style of playing in favour of interpretations of well-kno

• Archie Shepp - The Archie Shepp Quartet - Part 1 | DVD | (22/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Archie Shepp Quartet live atthe Teatro Alfieri in Turin in 1977. Tracklist: A Message From Trane Lush Life The Scene Is Clean

• Archie Shepp - Je suis jazz, c'est ma vie | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £18.88   |  Saving you £4.11 (21.77%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Archie Shepp Band - the Geneva Concert | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  World-renowned Archie Shepp needs no introductions: he is one of the greatest American saxophonists and one of the last living 'giants' of 20th Century jazz.In the wake of Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane Shepp was one of the driving forces of New York avant-garde jazz in the 1960s. Now Shepp has travelled back to the musical roots of his people: the blues. Today both as an instrumentalist and singer he is one of the most irresistible jazz performers. This untiring champion of African American culture is also one of the oldest and dearest friends of the New Morning jazz club. In 1978 it was he who inaugurated the big stage of the New Morning in Geneva; at exactly the place where we taped him in august 1994 with the late master pianist Horace Parlan Wayne Dockery and Steve McCraven. Tracklist: 01. Revolution 02. Things Ain't What They Used To Be 03. Ask Me Now 04. Arrival 05. The Reverse 06. Steam 07. Up Phat 08. Sophisticated Lady