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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
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