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Released
  
1967

Three for Shepp (1966)
  
Juba Lee (1967)

Release date
  
1967

Label
  
Impulse! Records

Length
  
34:43

Artist
  
Marion Brown

Producer
  
Bob Thiele

Genres
  
Jazz, Free jazz

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Recorded
  
December 1, 1966 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs

Similar
  
Marion Brown albums, Jazz albums

Three for Shepp is the debut album by American saxophonist Marion Brown featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Marion Brown's Three for Shepp is the image-in-the-mirror companion to Archie Shepp's Four for Trane recorded the year before. The program is equally divided between Brown's originals, which occupy the first half of the album, and Shepp tunes that take up the latter half. What is immediately striking is how similar in tone, color, and texture the two men were when it came to composition. Brown arms himself here with crack bands for these recordings... This is a classic Impulse! recording of the period by an overlooked master".

Track listing

All compositions by Marion Brown except as indicated
  1. "New Blue" - 5:11
  2. "Fortunato" - 8:54
  3. "The Shadow Knows" - 3:04
  4. "Spooks" (Archie Shepp) - 4:32
  5. "West India" (Shepp) - 6:24
  6. "Delicado" (Shepp) - 6:38

Personnel

  • Marion Brown - alto saxophone
  • Grachan Moncur III - trombone
  • Dave Burrell (tracks 1-3), Stanley Cowell (tracks 4-6) - piano
  • Norris Jones - bass
  • Bobby Capp (tracks 1-3), Beaver Harris (tracks 4-6) – drums
  • Songs

    1New Blue5:07
    2Fortunato8:50
    3The Shadow Knows3:00

    References

    Three for Shepp Wikipedia