Rahul Sharma (Editor)

Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary Five

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Released
  
1963

Length
  
71:49

Label
  
Sonet Records

Recorded
  
November 15, 1963

Release date
  
1963

Genre
  
Jazz

Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediaen221Arc

Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963)
  
The House I Live In (1963)

Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five (1963)
  
Bill Dixon 7-tette/Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary Five (1964)

Artist
  
New York Contemporary Five

Jazz albums
  
Four for Trane, Fire Music, Blue Lake, El Corazón, Eternal Now

Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five is a live album by the New York Contemporary Five recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 15, 1963 and featuring saxophonists Archie Shepp and John Tchicai, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Don Moore and drummer J. C. Moses. The album was originally released on the Sonet label in 1963 as New York Contemporary 5 in two separate volumes on LP and later as an edited concert on a single CD, removing the track "Cisum."

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album "historically significant".

Track listing

  1. "Consequences" (Don Cherry) - 8:38
  2. "Monk's Mood" (Thelonious Monk) - 2:30
  3. "Emotions" (Ornette Coleman) - 8:44
  4. "Wo Wo" (John Tchicai) - 5:51
  5. "Trio" (Bill Dixon) - 15:28
  6. "Crepuscule With Nellie" (Monk) - 2:15
  7. "O.C." (Coleman) - 6:41
  8. "When Will the Blues Leave?" (Coleman) - 8:58
  9. "The Funeral" (Archie Shepp) - 5:05
  10. "Mick" (Tchicai) - 7:39
Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 15, 1963.

Personnel

  • Archie Shepp: tenor saxophone
  • John Tchicai: alto saxophone
  • Don Cherry: trumpet
  • Don Moore: bass
  • J. C. Moses: drums
  • Songs

    1Consequences8:38
    2Monk's Mood2:29
    3Emotions8:44

    References

    Archie Shepp & the New York Contemporary Five Wikipedia