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Things Have Got to Change

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Released
  
1971

Genre
  
Jazz

Producer
  
Ed Michel

Recorded
  
May 17, 1971

Label
  
Impulse!

Things Have Got to Change(1971)
  
Attica Blues(1972)

Things Have Got to Change is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp released in 1971 on the Impulse! label. The album features performance by Shepp with a large ensemble and vocal choir. The album "solidified the saxophonists reputation as a soulful, yet radical free jazz artist motivated by social commentary and cultural change".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Money Blues, Parts 1 - 3" (Beaver Harris, Archie Shepp) - 18:20
  2. "Dr. King, The Peaceful Warrior" (Cal Massey) - 2:29
  3. "Things Have Got to Change, Parts 1 and 2" (Massey) - 16:53
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 17, 1971

    • Personnel

  • Archie Shepp: tenor and soprano saxophone
  • James Spaulding: alto saxophone, piccolo
  • Roy Burrows, Ted Daniel: trumpet
  • Charles Greenlee, Grachan Moncur III: trombone
  • Howard Johnson: baritone saxophone
  • Dave Burrell: electric piano
  • Billy Butler, David Spinozza: guitar
  • Roland Wilson: electric bass
  • Beaver Harris: drums
  • Ollie Anderson, Hetty "Bunchy" Fox, Calo Scott, Juma Sultan: percussion
  • Joe Lee Wilson: lead vocal
  • Anita Branham, Claudette Brown, Barbara Parsons, Ernestina Parsons, Jody Shayne, Anita Shepp, Johnny Shepp, Sharon Shepp: vocals

    • References

    Things Have Got to Change Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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